Elections 2024

Presidential Elections 2024

The first round of the seventh presidential elections will be held on April 24, while the second round will take place on May 8, together with the regular eleventh parliamentary elections.

In accordance with the Constitution and applicable legal provisions, the President of the Republic is elected in general and direct elections, by secret ballot, for a term of five years. The same person may be elected as President of the Republic no more than twice. The President of the Republic must be a citizen of the Republic of Macedonia. A person may be elected President of the Republic if they have reached at least 40 years of age on the day of the elections. A person who has not resided in the Republic of Macedonia for at least ten of the last fifteen years prior to the election day cannot be elected President.

A presidential candidate may be nominated by at least 10,000 voters or by at least 30 Members of Parliament. The candidate who receives a majority of votes from the total number of registered voters is elected President of the Republic. If no candidate receives the required majority in the first round, a second round is held between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round. The second round of voting is held within 14 days after the first round. A candidate is elected President if they receive a majority of the votes of those who voted, provided that more than half of the registered voters participated. If neither candidate receives the required majority in the second round, the entire election process is repeated.

The election of the President of the Republic takes place within the last 60 days of the term of the outgoing President. In the event of termination of the President’s mandate for any reason, the election of a new President must take place within 40 days from the day the mandate ended. Before taking office, the President of the Republic gives a solemn statement before the Assembly, committing to respect the Constitution and the laws.

List of Candidates for President:

  1. Stevo Pendarovski
  2. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
  3. Stevcho Jakikomvski
  4. Bujar Osmani
  5. Biljana Vankovska-Cvetkovska
  6. Arben Taravari
  7. Maksim Dimitrievski

List of Candidates for President – Second Round:

  1. Stevo Pendarovski
  2. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova

Parliamentary Elections

The parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place on 8 May 2024, concurrently with the second round of the presidential election. Further information will be announced in due course.

Political Parties and Electoral Platforms

  1. Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and the Coalition for a European Future
  2. VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition for Your Macedonia
  3. Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) and the Coalition for the European Front
  4. WORTH Coalition (VREDI)
  5. For Our Macedonia (ZNAM)
  6. The Left (Levica)

Electoral System

Out of the 123 parliamentary seats in the Assembly of the Republic, 120 are elected from six electoral districts in Macedonia, each allocating 20 seats through a proportional representation system based on closed party lists, with seats distributed according to the D'Hondt method. The remaining three seats are reserved for Macedonians residing abroad; however, these seats are filled only if the number of votes received by a candidate surpasses that of the candidate with the fewest votes elected within Macedonia in the previous elections.

Should a diaspora list exceed this threshold, it is entitled to one seat; to secure two parliamentary seats, the list must obtain twice the threshold number of votes, and to claim three seats, the list must achieve three times the threshold. These diaspora seats were not allocated in the 2020 elections due to insufficient voter turnout.

Electoral Process

Information regarding the electoral process will be made available upon the commencement of the campaigns.

Ratings and Results

According to processed data published on the website of the State Election Commission (SEC).