Tags: Election.
Iran’s tenth presidential election was held on 12 June 2009 with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency Iran’s official news agency announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.