With 100% of protocols counted: Yotova and Valchev win the election

With 100% of polling station election commission protocols processed by the district election commissions, the presidential couple of Iliyana Yotova and Kiril Valchev has won the race for Dondukov 2. They have a decisive lead over their opponents Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev.

As of 9:15 a.m. on November 2, Yotova and Valchev have received 57.566% of the vote, or a total of 1,093,852 votes. The Gyurov–Kandev couple is in second place with 39.483%, or 750,251 votes.

According to the aggregated data from the Central Election Commission, 2.951% of voters who cast their ballots chose the “I do not support any candidate” option, representing 56,080 people.

According to the parallel vote count conducted by the Trend agency, final voter turnout in the runoff reached 27.5%.

The results of the vote among Bulgarians living abroad are particularly telling, with 99.02% of the protocols processed:

► In the United States: The Gyurov–Kandev couple came first with a decisive 67.5%, while Yotova and Valchev received 30.5%. A total of 1.9% chose the “I do not support any candidate” option.

► In Russia: The picture was completely different. Yotova and Valchev won convincingly with 84.0%, while Gyurov and Kandev received just 13.7%. The “I do not support any candidate” option was chosen by 2.4%.

It is worth recalling that in the first round, Yotova and Valchev received 34.759% of the votes cast, while Gyurov and Kandev secured 31.952%.