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Raisi won just shy of 62% of the vote, on a voter turnout of 48.8% a record low in the Islamic republic.
Ebrahim Raisi is the front-runner in a field of just four candidates.
The moderate cleric, who spearheaded a 2015 nuclear deal with Barack Obama, has been re-elected with 57% of the vote.