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    "country": "IR",
    "country_name": "Iran",
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    "subdivision_name": null,
    "date": "2024-07-05",
    "date_status": "declared",
    "date_window": null,
    "kind": "runoff",
    "conditional": "Held because no candidate won an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round of 28 Jun 2024, so the two candidates with the most votes, Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, went to a second vote on the Friday of the following week (Constitution art. 117; Presidential Electoral Law arts. 12-14). The second-round date, 15 Tir 1403, was fixed in the election calendar (Guardian Council spokesman, shora-gc.ir news 10242).",
    "timezone": "Asia/Tehran",
    "status": "final-expected",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-10-03T12:00:00Z",
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-03: Guardian Council news site shora-gc.ir items 10241, 10242, 10244, 10247, 10248, 10249 (first round) and 10296, 10298, 10304 (second round), read through r.jina.ai; Presidential Electoral Law, English translation (Iran Data Portal) arts. 18, 20, 79; Constitution art. 117. moi.ir (geo-blocked) and the Wayback Machine were unreachable, so no counts were copied",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); no vote counts (the Ministry of Interior's own results could not be read; press figures not used)"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/iran-presidential-2024-r2",
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        "name": "President of the Islamic Republic",
        "body": "head-of-state",
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        "polls_close_utc": "2024-07-05T20:30:00Z",
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          "id": "ir-moi",
          "name": "Ministry of Interior (Country Election Headquarters)",
          "name_local": "وزارت کشور (ستاد انتخابات کشور)",
          "role": "ministry",
          "homepage": "https://www.moi.ir/",
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        },
        "status": "final-expected",
        "expected_stage_now": "court-validation",
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          "from": "2024-07-05T20:30:00Z",
          "by": "2024-07-08T20:29:59Z",
          "confidence": "estimate",
          "basis": "POLLS CLOSE: Voting extended to midnight local (20:30 UTC): Guardian Council spokesman, news 10298 (5 Jul 2024 23:19 IRST): 'زمان رای‌گیری تا ساعت ۲۴ تمدید شد' (voting time was extended to 24:00), and those still present after 24:00 may vote; news 10296: 'رای‌گیری تا ساعت ۲۴ که وزارت کشور اعلام کرده، ادامه خواهد داشت'. The law sets 10 hours, extendable by the Minister of Interior (Presidential Electoral Law art. 20). FINAL RESULT: Presidential Electoral Law art. 18: the Ministry of Interior announces the final result through the mass media once the counts are in. No deadline; the window (to the end of Monday 8 Jul local) is an estimate, three days after polling day. The Ministry declared the result on Saturday 6 Jul 2024 (reported by the press, e.g. Al Jazeera 6 Jul 2024), but no official page dating that announcement could be read (moi.ir is geo-blocked; the Guardian Council's pages do not date it), so observedAt is left out. Verifier: add it from the Ministry's announcement."
        },
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          "election": "President of the Islamic Republic 2024",
          "election_id": "iran-presidential-2024",
          "polling_day": "2024-06-28",
          "final_on": "2024-06-29",
          "days": 1,
          "act": null,
          "source": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/10244",
          "source_kind": "authority",
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        },
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        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2024-07-05T20:30:00Z",
            "by": "2024-07-08T20:29:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "POLLS CLOSE: Voting extended to midnight local (20:30 UTC): Guardian Council spokesman, news 10298 (5 Jul 2024 23:19 IRST): 'زمان رای‌گیری تا ساعت ۲۴ تمدید شد' (voting time was extended to 24:00), and those still present after 24:00 may vote; news 10296: 'رای‌گیری تا ساعت ۲۴ که وزارت کشور اعلام کرده، ادامه خواهد داشت'. The law sets 10 hours, extendable by the Minister of Interior (Presidential Electoral Law art. 20). FINAL RESULT: Presidential Electoral Law art. 18: the Ministry of Interior announces the final result through the mass media once the counts are in. No deadline; the window (to the end of Monday 8 Jul local) is an estimate, three days after polling day. The Ministry declared the result on Saturday 6 Jul 2024 (reported by the press, e.g. Al Jazeera 6 Jul 2024), but no official page dating that announcement could be read (moi.ir is geo-blocked; the Guardian Council's pages do not date it), so observedAt is left out. Verifier: add it from the Ministry's announcement.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "court-validation",
            "from": "2024-07-06T00:00:00Z",
            "by": "2024-07-18T20:29:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Presidential Electoral Law art. 79: the Guardian Council's final view within one week, at most ten days after receiving the results; the Ministry of Interior then announces the result. The window closes ten days after the end of the final-result window, end of day local. Observed: published 17 Tir 1403 14:41 IRST (7 Jul 2024, 11:11 UTC), 'صحت مرحله دوم انتخابات چهاردهمین دوره ریاست‌جمهوری تایید شد'; the review ended 'ساعتی قبل' (an hour earlier) and the approval was formally notified to the Ministry of Interior (news 10304). observedAt is the publication time. The Leader authorised (tanfiz) the President's decree on 28 Jul 2024 (see iran-presidential-2028), which began the term.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": "2024-07-07T11:11:00Z",
            "observedSource": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/10304"
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        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/10304",
            "role": "court-validation",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Guardian Council, news 10304, published 17 Tir 1403 14:41 IRST (7 Jul 2024): spokesman Hadi Tahan-Nazif: 'بررسی صحت مرحله دوم چهاردهمین دوره انتخابات ریاست‌جمهوری ساعتی قبل در شورای نگهبان به پایان رسید و صحت آن تایید شد' (the review of the second round's validity ended an hour ago and it was approved), 'این موضوع به طور رسمی به وزارت کشور ... نیز اعلام شد' (formally notified to the Ministry of Interior); no complaints from the candidates; the credentials of Masoud Pezeshkian, the President-elect, to be sent to the Leader's office for authorisation (tanfiz).",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.shora-gc.ir/fa/news/10298",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Guardian Council, news 10298, 5 Jul 2024 23:19 IRST: voting extended to 24:00; after the count, polling-station minutes go to the governorates and then to the Ministry of Interior; 'اعلام نتایج برعهده وزارت کشور است' (announcing results is the Ministry of Interior's job).",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.moi.ir/",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Ministry of Interior homepage; its Country Election Headquarters (ستاد انتخابات کشور) announced the results. moi.ir refuses requests from outside Iran (an r.jina.ai fetch on 3 Oct 2026 returned the site's own 403 page: 'درخواست از IP جغرافیایی شما به این وب سایت امکان پذیر نمی باشد', requests from your geographic IP are not allowed), and the Wayback Machine could not be reached, so the Ministry's own results announcement was not read and is not linked. Listed as the authority's site only, not as a results source.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://irandataportal.syr.edu/presidential-electoral-law",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Presidential Electoral Law, English translation (Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University): art. 18 (Ministry of Interior announces the final result), art. 20 (one day, 10 hours, extendable), art. 79 (Guardian Council's final view within one week, at most ten days). The translation predates later amendments.",
            "check": null
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          {
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            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution (1989 text, Persian, Wikisource): art. 117, absolute majority; otherwise a second vote on the Friday of the following week between the two leading candidates. Art. 131: a new president within 50 days of the President's death (Ebrahim Raisi died on 19 May 2024).",
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            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_presidential_election",
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