Voting Underway in Iran’s Run-Off Parliamentary Elections
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Polls opened in Iran’s run-off parliamentary elections on Friday morning in constituencies where candidates failed to earn enough votes in the February elections.
The run-off polls are being held in 21 provinces for 69 remaining seats in the parliament as twice the number of the seats, namely 138 candidates, are running in the polls.
According to Iran’s Interior Ministry Spokesman Hossein-Ali Amiri, the ministry and the Guardian Council will have finished handling everything in relation to the parliamentary elections before the new legislature holds its first meeting on May 27.
Countrywide parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections were held in Iran on February 26. According to authorities, 4,844 and 161 candidates ran for the parliament and the Assembly of Experts, respectively.
More than 60 percent of some 55 million eligible voters cast their ballots at around 53,000 polling stations across the country.
There are 290 seats in the Iranian parliament, elected by direct vote of people in nationwide election for four years.
