2005 Iranian presidential election
Results

2005 Iranian presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Candidate	1st round	2nd round

Votes	%	Votes	%

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	5,711,696	19.43	17,284,782	61.69

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	6,211,937	21.13	10,046,701	35.93

Mehdi Karroubi	5,070,114	17.24

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf	4,095,827	13.93

Mostafa Moeen	4,083,951	13.89

Ali Larijani	1,713,810	5.83

Mohsen Mehralizadeh	1,288,640	4.38

Blank or invalid votes	1,224,882	4.17	663,770	2.37

Total (turnout 62.66% and 59.6%)	29,400,857	100	27,959,253	100

Sentence(s)

The 2005 Iranian presidential election had a total of 27,959,253 votes in the second round, lower than the first round.

final_sentence: The 2005 Iranian presidential election had a total of 27,959,253 votes in the second round, lower than the first round.