ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 12 JUNE 2009 =================================================================== Source: BBC Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------- * EAIE - E'telaf-e Abadgaran-e Iran-e Eslami (Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran) * EM - Etemad-e-Melli (National Confidence party) NATIONAL SUMMARY =================================================================== Enrolled voters: Votes cast: 39,165,191 Invalid votes: 409,389 01.1 Valid votes: 38,755,802 98.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad EAIE 24,527,516 62.6 Mehdi Karroubi EM 333,635 00.8 Mir-Hossein Mousavi 13,216,411 33.8 Mohsen Rezaee 678,240 01.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 38,755,802 ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no formal political parties in Iran. These party labels have been assigned to candidates by media reports. Mousavi was an independent candidate generally regarded as a reformer. Razaee was an independent generally regarded as a conseravtive. These results have been widely regarded as fraudulent both inside and outside Iran. They conflict with the results of opinion polls taken shortly before the election, which showed Moussavi leading by a wide margin.