VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gjorgje Ivanov won 451,365 votes, thus winning the fourth presidential election in the Republic of Macedonia. His opponent, SDSM presidential candidate Ljubomir Frckoski won 263,457 votes. These are the initial results of the voting on Sunday, which were announced by the State Election Commission (DIK) following the processing of 99.46 percent of the data received from 2,960 polling places. DIK informed that the voter turnout based on the data processed is 42.69 percent, which meets the required limit for the presidential election.