2024 North Macedonian presidential election

2024 North Macedonian presidential election

24 April 2024 (first round)
8 May 2024 (second round)
Turnout49.91% (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%


President before election

Stevo Pendarovski
SDSM

Elected President

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
VMRO-DPMNE

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 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.