Alwaght- Vote counting is still underway in Iran's twin Parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections, hold on Friday.
At least 33 million out of the 55 million eligible voters, 60 per cent, participated in Iran’s 5th Assembly of Experts election and 10th parliamentary.
Meanwhile, vote counting in Tehran and some other major cities, including the northeastern city of Mashhad, continued.
According to the interior ministry, a sum of 6,229 candidates was cleared to compete for the 290-seat legislature but 729 of them withdrew from candidacy. More than 5,500 carried out the final registration to run in the race. Candidates from all the three major camps, the Principlists, Moderates and Reformists were present in the race.
Most of the votes throughout the country were shared among Principlists, who currently dominate the country's parliament, while Reformists were set for a landslide victory in the capital, Tehran.
In the capital, votes from around 1,400 parliamentary ballot boxes are being counted, Ali Asghar Naser-Bakht, Tehran's deputy governor, was quoted by IRNA as saying early on Sunday.
He added that around 1,000 Assembly of Experts ballot boxes, mostly from northern Tehran, are also to be fully counted.
Based on initial results, Iran’s former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref, Reformist, is leading the capital city’s parliamentary list, followed by Moderate Ali Motahari.
Alireza Mahjoob, Soheila Jelodarzadeh and Elias Hazrati, all Reformists, were the other candidates leading the list in Tehran.
However, 59 percent of votes throughout the country were shared among Principlists.
Tehran’s Assembly of Experts list was led by Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council and former Iranian president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Hassan Rouhani.
The list continues with Mohammad Agha Imami Kashani, Mohsen Ghomi and Mohammad Ali Movahed.
The 88-member Assembly of Experts is a clerical body responsible for appointing the Supreme Leader. There would serve a eight-Year term.
