This was the first presidential runoff in the history of Iran.

Other candidates in this year's highly splintered presidential runoff have already begun their negotiations for eventual positions in the winner's cabinet.

At the beginning of the week that I arrived, there were few Ahmadinejad posters around Tehran for the presidential runoff.

They were leading a team negotiating the constitutionally mandated presidential runoff.

By contrast, voter turnout in the presidential runoff in May was more than 84 percent.

A presidential runoff was triggered because their candidate, José Mujica, only received 47.96 percent of the vote.

Ivory Coast's disastrous presidential runoff has thrown the country into turmoil.

In the 2009 presidential runoff, he narrowly defeated Mircea Geoana, a former foreign minister.

Leaders of the former guerrillas, asserting that their poor showing was because the electoral system was stacked against them, threatened to withdraw from the presidential runoff.

Voter turnout was low for the presidential runoff.