Electoral history of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an Iranian Principlist politician who was President of Iran (2005-2013) and Mayor of Tehran (2003–2005).

City Council election

In 1998, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered for City Council of Tehran election. He failed to win a seat.[1]

Parliament election

2000

In 2000, Ahmadinejad registered for Iranian Parliament election from Tehran. He was supperted by Islamic Coalition Party, Combatant Clergy Association and was listed in Coalition of Followers of the Line of the Imam and Leader electoral list. Ahmadinejad lost the election.[2] He received 280,046 out of 2,931,113 votes and was ranked 68th.[3]

Mayoral of Tehran

On 3 May 2003, City Council of Tehran elected him as Mayor by a vote of 12 to 1, with 2 abstentions.[4]

CandidateVotes%
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12 / 15
80

Presidential elections

2005

 Summary of the 17 and 24 June 2005 Iranian Presidential election results
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

2009

Candidate Votes Percentage
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (inc.) 24,527,516 62.63%
Mir-Hossein Mousavi 13,216,411 33.75%
Mohsen Rezaee 678,240 1.73%
Mehdi Karroubi 333,635 0.85%
Valid votes 38,755,802 98.95%
Blank or invalid votes 409,389 1.05%
Totals 39,165,191 100.00%
Voter turnout 85%
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran[5]

References

  1. ↑ احمدی‌نژاد زمان خداحافظی خود را تعیین کرد (in Persian), Rooz Online, retrieved 26 March 2015
  2. ↑ سالي كه احمدی‌نژاد در انتخابات راي نياورد (in Persian), baharnews.ir, retrieved 26 March 2015
  3. ↑ آگهی نتیجه انتخابات ششمین دوره مجلس شورای اسلامی در حوزه انتخابیه تهران، ری، شمیرانات و اسلامشهر, archived from the original on 9 June 2011
  4. ↑ احمدي‌نژاد شهردار تهران شد (in Persian), Iranian Students News Agency, retrieved 26 March 2015
  5. ↑ "نتایج نهایی دهمین دورهٔ انتخابات ریاست جمهوری" (in Persian). Ministry of Interior of Iran. 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
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