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

Iranian presidential 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

Iranian presidential election, 2013
Candidate		Votes	%
	Hassan Rouhani	18,613,329	50.88
	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf	6,077,292	16.46
	Saeed Jalili	4,168,946	11.31
	Mohsen Rezaee	3,884,412	10.55
	Ali Akbar Velayati	2,268,753	6.16
	Mohammad Gharazi	446,015	1.22
Valid votes		35,458,747	96.58
Blank or invalid votes		1,245,409	3.42
Total votes cast		36,704,156	100
Registered voters/turnout		50,483,192	72.70
Sources: Ministry of Interior of Iran

References

1. سابقه شکست ها و پیروزی های اصول گرایان این دوره (in Persian), didban.ir, retrieved 26 March 2015
2. آگهی نتیجه انتخابات ششمین دوره مجلس شورای اسلامی در حوزه انتخابیه تهران، ری، شمیرانات و اسلامشهر, archived from the original on 9 June 2011
3. "نتایج نهایی دهمین دورهٔ انتخابات ریاست جمهوری" (in Persian). Ministry of Interior of Iran. 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2009-06-27.