Iran Press/ Iran news: Pezeshkian and Jalili will head into a runoff set for July 5. The second round is required if no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote, plus one.
The two candidates are allowed to begin their election campaign from Sunday until Wednesday, Vahidi said. Campaigning has to stop 24 hours before the vote.
In the final tally, Pezeshkian held his lead with 10,415,991 votes (42.45%) out of 24,535,185 votes. Jalili edged closer with 9,473,298 votes (38.61%).
Qalibaf and Pourmohammadi both came a distant third and fourth with 3,383,340 (13.78%) and 206,397 votes (0.84%) respectively.
The snap presidential election was called after President Ebrahim Raeisi passed away in a helicopter crash with seven others on May 19 in northwestern Iran.
More than 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in Friday's election, many of them first-time voters.
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