2024 North Macedonian presidential election

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2024 North Macedonian presidential election

← 2019 24 April 2024 (first round) 8 May 2024 (second round) 2029 →
Turnout	49.91% (first round) 8.24pp 47.47% (second round) 0.81pp
Nominee Gordana Siljanovska Stevo Pendarovski Party VMRO-DPMNE SDSM Alliance Your Macedonia For a European Future Popular vote 561,000 251,899 Percentage 69.01% 30.99%
First round results by municipality Second round results by municipality
President before election Stevo Pendarovski SDSM Elected President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova VMRO-DPMNE

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Presidential elections were held in North Macedonia on 24 April 2024. Incumbent Stevo Pendarovski of the ruling centre-left Social Democrats ran for re-election to a second term.

No candidate received a majority of votes in the first round, with right-wing challenger Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova placing first by a wide margin winning 41.2% of the vote, while Pendarovski received 20% of the vote coming in second place. The two faced off in the second round run-off on 8 May,^[1] which was held alongside parliamentary elections.^[2][3] In the second round, Siljanovska defeated the incumbent Pendarovski by a wide margin and became the first woman to be elected as President of North Macedonia.^[4] She was inaugurated on 12 May.^[5]