- The State Election Commission released the initial final unofficial results which have been 100 percent processed and according to them, VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gjorge Ivanov in the first round of the presidential elections won 449,068 votes (51.67 percent). SDSM candidate Stevo Pendarovski – 326,133 votes (37.52 percent). PDSH candidate Ilijaz Halimi won 38,966 votes (4.48 percent) whereas Zoran Popovski from party GROM won 31,366 votes (3.61 percent).  The data is obtained from all 3,512 polling stations.