Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Iran in spring 2017, However, they might be held earlier under exceptional circumstances, such as the deposition, resignation or death of the President. It will be the twelfth presidential election in Iran.
Information and Public Opinion Solutions LLC (iPOS), based in Virginia, asked a random sample of 735 Iranian adults aged 18 and older an open-ended question about their preference for the next president. Among all respondents, 60% were either undecided or expressed that "it is too soon for them to make a decision". The poll was conducted on 14–15 February 2015, via telephone interviews on landlines and cellular phones
representing every province of Iran. The firm states with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±3.6 percentage points.[16] Among those who replied a name, the results were as follows: