According to the State Election Commission, based on data processed from 97.72 percent of the polling stations, VMRO-DPMNE’s presidential candidate Gjorge Ivanov polled 448,303 votes, or 51.65 percent, SDSM’s presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski polled 326,069 votes, or 37.57 percent, PDSH’s presidential candidate Iljaz Halimi polled 38,965 votes, or 4.49 percent, and GROM’s presidential candidate Zoran Popovski won 31,360 votes, or 3.61 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election on 13 April. The invalid ballots total 23,651.