{"iso":"IR","name":"Iran","flag":"\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7","vote":"Presidential first-round vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2024-06-28","source":"2024 presidential first round, official count","credit":"Majlis elections are largely candidate-based with no clean national party vote, so this entry shows the first round of the June 2024 snap presidential election, official results as published by Iran's Interior Ministry election headquarters. Masoud Pezeshkian won the July runoff with about 55 percent of the valid vote. Every candidate was pre-approved by the Guardian Council, which excludes opponents of clerical rule, so the ballot measured factions within the system rather than genuine opposition. The next elections are due in 2028.","shares":{"PEZ":44.4,"JAL":40.3,"GHA":14.4,"POU":0.9},"polls":[],"parties":{"PEZ":{"name":"Masoud Pezeshkian","color":"#48D1CC","name_en":"Masoud Pezeshkian (reformist)"},"JAL":{"name":"Saeed Jalili","color":"#0077B6","name_en":"Saeed Jalili (principlist)"},"GHA":{"name":"Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf","color":"#4A6FA5","name_en":"Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (principlist)"},"POU":{"name":"Mostafa Pourmohammadi","color":"#2F4B7C","name_en":"Mostafa Pourmohammadi (principlist)"}},"primer":{"system":"Theocratic Islamic republic combining clerical rule with tightly vetted elections","head_of_state":"Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father Ali Khamenei in 2026","head_of_government":"President Masoud Pezeshkian","legislature":"Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), 290 seats, elected on largely non-party candidate lists.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected by two-round majority vote for four-year terms. The Guardian Council vets all candidates for every office and excludes most would-be contenders.","government_now":"Pezeshkian, a relative moderate, won the snap 2024 election held after President Raisi died in a helicopter crash, defeating hardliner Saeed Jalili in the runoff.","context":"Ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Leader, a post kept within the Khamenei household in 2026 after the June 2025 war in which Israel and the United States struck Iranian nuclear sites. Sanctions, inflation and recurring protest waves frame a system whose elected offices remain subordinate.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"PEZ":["Masoud Pezeshkian","","Reformist-aligned; won the 2024 snap presidential election and is the current president, a relative moderate operating within the limits set by clerical rule."],"JAL":["Saeed Jalili","","Hardline principlist (conservative) and former nuclear negotiator; lost the 2024 presidential runoff to Pezeshkian."],"GHA":["Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf","","Conservative principlist, Speaker of Parliament, former Tehran mayor and IRGC commander; placed third in the 2024 first round."],"POU":["Mostafa Pourmohammadi","","Conservative cleric and former interior and justice minister; the only cleric in the 2024 race, finished last."]},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2028","title":"Iranian presidential election","chamber":"President","type":"expected"}}