On Saturday morning, Mohsen Eslami, the spokesman for the Elections Headquarters, gave new details of the results of Friday’s presidential election, saying a total of 14,070,462 votes have been tallied by 8:20 am local time.
The latest figures show that Pezeshkian has won 5,955,781 votes, equivalent to 42.32% of the ballots.
The runner-up, Saeed Jalili, has secured 39.51% of the votes with 5,560,321 ballots, Eslami said, adding that the two other candidates, namely Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, have garnered 13.44% and 0.79% of the votes, respectively.
Over 61 million Iranians were eligible to cast their ballots at around 59,000 polling stations across the country on Friday.
The polls took place a year ahead of schedule, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi passed away in May.
A helicopter carrying President Raisi and his entourage crashed in northwestern mountainous forests on May 19, killing the president, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, and six others.