Iliana Yotova and Kiril Valchev have been elected president and vice president of Bulgaria after Sunday's run-off on 1 November, Central Election Commission (CEC) spokeswoman Stoyanka Balova told a briefing.

Yotova and Valchev won 57.566% of the vote, or 1,093,852 valid votes. Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev came second with 750,251 votes, or 39.483%. The CEC announced their result at a meeting yesterday. In all, 56,080 people ticked "I don't support anyone".

By 20:00, turnout in the run-off was 28.67%, compared with 22.98% in the first round. Nearly 6.59 million Bulgarian citizens could vote. Of these, 47,634 were voting for the first time, and 1,633 turned 18 between the two rounds.

Turnout was highest in Sofia's 23rd district, where 194,979 of 434,971 voters took part, or 44.83%. It was lowest in Kardzhali, where 36,830 of 274,790 eligible voters took part, or 13.40%.

Officials set up 12,683 polling station commissions. In all, 11,902 voting machines were used in the two rounds. There were two machines in 2,287 polling stations, and 3,068 stations used paper ballots.

There were 613 polling stations abroad, 242 of them with machine voting. There were 262 mobile polling stations for the two rounds. For people with visual impairments, 1,500 tactile ballot templates were printed.

In Burgas region, Yotova and Valchev also won the run-off, with 62.75% of the vote, or 61,628 people, according to CEC data we reported on 2 November. Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev were second with 33,407 votes, or 34.02%.

The CEC decision will be published in the State Gazette this week, Balova said.