Electoral history of Mohsen Rezaee

This is a summary of the electoral history of Mohsen Rezaee, an Iranian Principlist politician who had been a member of Expediency Discernment Council since 1997, and was Chief Commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from 1980 to 1997.

Parliament election

2000

In 2000, Rezaee 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. He lost the election.[1] He received 539,796 out of 2,931,113 votes and was ranked 36th.[2]

Presidential elections

2005

He registered for the election, but withdrew on 15 June 2005 two days before the election.

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[3]

2013

Candidate Votes %
Hassan Rouhani18,613,32950.88
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf6,077,29216.46
Saeed Jalili4,168,94611.31
Mohsen Rezaee3,884,41210.55
Ali Akbar Velayati2,268,7536.16
Mohammad Gharazi446,0151.22
Valid votes35,458,74796.58
Blank or invalid votes1,245,4093.42
Total votes cast36,704,156100
Registered voters/turnout50,483,19272.70
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran

References

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