2024 North Macedonian presidential election
24 April 2024 (first round)
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| Turnout | 49.91% (first round) 8.24pp 47.47% (second round) 0.81pp | |||||||||||||||||||
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| North Macedonia portal |
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 the vote in the first round, with right-wing challenger Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova placing first by a wide margin with 41% of the vote, while Pendarovski finished second with 20% of the vote. The two faced off in the second round run-off on 8 May, which was held alongside parliamentary elections. In the second round, Siljanovska defeated the incumbent Pendarovski with 69% of the vote and became the first woman to be elected president of North Macedonia. She was inaugurated on 12 May.