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Press TV exclusive: Here is how much voter support each candidate has

Wednesday, 16 June 2021 3:53 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 16 June 2021 4:30 PM ]

The latest study of voter inclinations by Press TV shows presidential candidate Ebrahim Raeisi at the top with 57.3% of voter support.

The study, based on prominent polls and finalized on Tuesday (June 15), also showed that 5.8% of individuals who said they would definitely participate in the June 18 election would vote for Mohsen Rezaei.

Reformist candidate Nasser Hemmati was third with 2.8%; and Principlist Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi was fourth with 2.2%.

Some 18.3% of voters were still undecided.

Three presidential candidates, namely Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh, Alireza Zakani, and Saeed Jalili, dropped out of the race on Wednesday. In the study, they garnered a combined voter support of 4.6%.

Also, individuals who said they would possibly participate in the election displayed the inclinations shown in the graph below:

All campaigning will have to stop on Thursday morning, 24 hours before polls open, according to election law.

As campaigning nears end, voices unite in Iran to call for mass turnout in election

As pre-election campaigning races to a close, voices have been uniting across Iran’s political, social and religious spectrum for a mass participation in the June 18 presidential election in order to bolster the nation’s global standing.

In carrying out the study, Press TV used data from polling stations whose records had proven them to be credible. Press TV assessed the record of the polling stations by comparing their predictions in past elections with the actual results in each case.

Iran is holding its 13^th presidential election on June 18. The first presidential debate was held on June 5, and the second debate on June 8. A third debate was being held on Saturday (June 12).

Over 59.3 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the election, according to the Iranian Interior Ministry.

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