The initial results that the State Election Commission (SEC) published Thursday morning on its website show that out of almost 100 percent of the ballots processed, the VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova won the most votes in yesterday’s presidential elections, 362,682 (40.08%), ahead of the SDSM candidate Stevo Pendarovski that won 180,306 (19.93%).
Bujar Osmani comes third with 110,903 votes, followed by Arben Taravari from the Worth It coalition with 79,110 votes, ZNAM’s Maksim Dimitrievski has 70,996 votes, Levica’s Biljana Vankovska has 35,949 votes and GROM’s Stevcho Jakimovski has 7,499 votes.
The President of the State Election Commission (SEC), Aleksandar Dashtevski, underlined that voter turnout, based on data from 3,156 polling stations, stands at 49.75 percent. A total of 810,971 voters cast their votes. Valid ballots amounted to 789,031, with 21,946 invalid ballots.
