A little before 23.00 hrs, MP Vlatko Gjorcev from VMRO-DPMNE said his party won the early parliamentary elections. According to Gjorcev, PM Nikola Gruevski will still be Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia. Gjorcev also said VMRO-DPMNE will have 55 MPs in the new Parliament including the three diaspora MPs and SDSM 39 MPs. He thanked all Macedonian citizens for their contribution to holding fair and democratic elections. Gjorcev also informed that the smaller parties will have no Members of Parliament.
According to the State Election Commission, based on information from 62 percent of the polling stations, VMRO-DPMNE polled 218,714 (39.85 percent), SDSM 179,007 (32.62 percent), BDI 57,766 (10.53 percent) and PDSH 27,966 (5.10 percent) votes.