Iranians vote to elect the Shura Council and leadership experts. More than 61 million Iranians were invited to cast their votes in about 60,000 polling stations.
A record number of 15,200 candidates are participating, while some expectations indicate that the elections will strengthen the conservatives’ grip. The legislative elections in 2020 witnessed the lowest participation rate since the declaration of the Islamic Republic in 1979, as only 42.57% of voters cast their vote during the voting that took place at the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic crisis.