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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (65193)	6/18/2005 10:16:51 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Pragmatic cleric Akbar Rafsanjani and hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad topped final results from Iran's presidential poll and will contest a run-off vote, an Interior Ministry source said on Saturday. Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad top final Iran poll tally Sat Jun 18, 2005 09:44 AM ET Printer Friendly \| Email Article \| Reprints \| RSS TEHRAN (Reuters) - Pragmatic cleric Akbar Rafsanjani and hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad topped final results from Iran's presidential poll and will contest a run-off vote, an Interior Ministry source said on Saturday. Pre-election favorite Rafsanjani won 20.8 percent of the 28.85 million votes cast, a turnout of 62 percent of eligible voters, while Ahmadinejad got 19.3 percent, the source said. The source, who asked not to be named, said the results did not include ballots cast by Iranians abroad but added that those were not expected to alter the top positions from Friday's vote. As no-one in the seven-strong field secured at least 50 percent of votes cast, Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad will fight a run-off election on Friday, June 24.