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Originally Posted by arsenal
Based on the numbers from wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_presidential_election%2C_2005)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recieved 19% of the vote during the first round of elections (29 million people turned out 62.66% of the population).
And then 61-62% of vote in the second round of elections of roughly 28 million voters (which is around 59.6% of Iranian population).
Which turns out to be about 17 million people voted for him, with a total population of around 47 million people, which is about 36% of the total population. |
So . . . . . 36% of the population voted in favour of a guy who had some help when moderate candidates with views opposing his own were banned by a council of unelected Mullahs which really runs Iran.
Iran actually seems like a fairly moderate population . . . . . but radicals control the mechanisms of government so you don't really know that for sure.
Cowperson