Hardliners have won a majority of the seats in the parliamentary elections in Iran, which saw a record low turnout of 41% after calls for a boycott.
Most moderate and reformist figures were disqualified from standing in Friday's polls, which were the first since the 2022 nationwide protests.
Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi told a news conference that 25 million of the 61 million eligible voters took part.
He also revealed that about 5% of the ballots cast were "invalid", or spoilt.
Hardline President Ebrahim Raisi earlier praised the "passionate turnout", which he described as an "extreme blow" to opponents of the Islamic Republic.
But the head of the Reform Front coalition of parties - which refused to take part in the elections they considered "meaningless" and "non-competitive" - said she hoped the elections would serve as "a lesson" for the state.
"Authorities should listen to the silent majority... and reform the governance method," state media quoted Azar Mansouri as saying. "I hope they realise before it's too late to reverse the damage and harm this path will cause."
Analysts had said a low turnout would be a show of disenchantment with politics, after the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had urged people to vote.
Some 42% of those eligible voted in the last parliamentary elections in 2020. Turnout had been consistently above 50% before then.
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Iran's election headquarters announced on Monday that 245 of the 290 seats in parliament had been decided in the first round.
The remaining 45 seats will go to second round run-offs because the winning candidates had not received the 20% of the votes required.
Only 14 candidates reached the threshold in the capital, Tehran, and its surrounding province, meaning that run-offs will be held for more than half of the 30 seats there.
Most of the winning candidates nationwide are considered to be conservative hardliners, who are staunchly loyal to the Islamic ruling system and are opposed to political or social freedoms.
