Fifty-two of the Principlist candidates (conservatives) have won the country's parliamentary run-off election, accounting for 63.4 percent of the remaining seats, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
According to the results released by the Interior Ministry election headquarters, for the remaining 82 seats after the first round of the eighth legislative election held in March, the number of Principlist winners is put at 52 and the rest 30 were gained by the reformist camp.
After the two rounds of campaign for the legislative seats, it now turns out that 69 percent of the total 290 seats in the parliament have gone for the principlists while only 16 percent has been by the reformists, according to local media reports.
About 14 percent of the seats would be that of the independent candidates.
Iranians voted in the second round of parliamentary (Majlis) elections in 54 constituencies in 100 cities Friday, the report added.
Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi put the participation in Friday's run-off at five percent higher than the turnout in the previous run-off for the seventh Majlis.
About 21 million Iranians were eligible to vote in the run-off polls to choose their representatives for the remaining seats.
In Iran's 290-seat parliament, except the 82 seats just decided in Friday's run-off, Iran's conservatives who generally support President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won an absolute majority of 132 seats during the first round of elections.
Reformers who wanted a better relations with the Western countries won more than 30 seats at that time and the rest were gained by independents.
Previous local reports said about 1,700 people were barred from running by the clerical Guardian Council in the first round on the ground that they were not "loyal" enough to the Islam and revolution.
The Iranian reformist parties and some Western media have said most of the barred were reformist candidates, accusing Tehran of trying to keep a conservative grip in the new parliament.
Some Western countries have called the disqualification a "grave violation" of international norms and the first round of election was "neither fair nor free."
Iran has condemned the Western comments as politically motivated and unacceptable.
Source: Xinhua
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