Iliana Iotova and Kiril Valchev lead Bulgaria's 25 October presidential election with 34.76%, ahead of Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev on 31.95%, interim results from the Central Election Commission (CIK) show. The figures cover 99.94% of polling station protocols.

Kostadin Kostadinov and Petar Volgin are third with 12.54%. Radostin Vasilev and Krasimir Manov follow with 4.61%, then Ivelin Mihaylov and Yuliana Mateeva with 3.79%, and Ivan Hristanov and Stoyanka Cherkezova with 2.40%.

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Some 4.43% of voters, or 67,326 people, ticked "I do not support anyone".

The CIK website puts turnout at 4pm at 15.95%. Of 6,637,238 people entitled to vote, 1,058,669 have cast ballots.