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Registered | 42,170,230 [1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 66.77% [1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Percentage of votes that went to Mohammad Khatami per county | |||||||||||||||||
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SeyyedMohammad Khatami served as the fifth President of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. He was a critic of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.
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The final candidates were: [3] [4]
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Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Mohammad Khatami | 21,656,476 | 76.90 | |
Ahmad Tavakkoli | 4,387,112 | 15.58 | |
Ali Shamkhani | 737,051 | 2.61 | |
Abdollah Jassbi | 259,759 | 0.92 | |
Mahmoud Kashani | 237,660 | 0.84 | |
Hassan Ghafourifard | 129,155 | 0.45 | |
Mansour Razavi | 114,616 | 0.40 | |
Shahabedin Sadr | 60,546 | 0.21 | |
Ali Fallahian | 55,225 | 0.19 | |
Mostafa Hashemitaba | 27,949 | 0.09 | |
Valid votes | 27,665,549 | 98.25 | |
Blank or invalid votes | 493,740 | 1.75 | |
Totals | 28,159,289 | 100.00% | |
Sources: Sahliyeh [2] and RFE/RL [5] |
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