Macedonian presidential election, 1999

Presidential elections were held in Macedonia on 31 October 1999, with a second round on 14 November.^[1] Tito Petkovski of the Social Democratic Union won the first round. However, as he received less than 50% of the vote, the election went to a second round, which was won by Boris Trajkovski of VMRO-DPMNE, who won 53.2% of the vote.

Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Tito Petkovski	Social Democratic Union	343,606	33.1	513,614	46.8
Boris Trajkovski	VMRO-DPMNE	219,098	21.1	582,808	53.2
Vasil Tupurkovski	Democratic Alternative	163,206	15.7
Muharem Nëxhipi	Democratic Party of Albanians	155,978	15.0
Stojan Andov	Liberal Party of Macedonia	111,983	10.8
Muhamed Halili	Party for Democratic Prosperity	45,731	4.4
Invalid/blank votes		11,013	–	16,281	–
Total		1,050,615	100	1,112,703	100
Registered voters/turnout		1,613,284	65.1	1,610,340	69.1
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1278 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

External links

• State Electoral Commission, Presidential elections 1999