Iliana Iotova and Kiril Valchev are Bulgaria's president and vice president, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said. CEC spokeswoman Stoyanka Balova announced the result at a briefing. The pair won the 1 November runoff with 57.566% of the vote. A week earlier, on 25 October, none of the 27 tickets won enough support.

Balova said the decision on the winners will be published in the State Gazette this week.

The previous development: Bulgaria votes in presidential runoff, polls close at 8pm

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

At 8pm, turnout in the second round was 28.67%, against 22.98% in the first. Nearly 6.59m Bulgarian citizens were eligible to vote.

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

In all, 47,634 people voted for the first time, and 1,633 turned 18 between the two rounds.

There were 12,683 section election commissions. Across the two rounds, 11,902 voting machines were used, and 2,287 sections had two. Paper ballots were used in 3,068 sections.

Abroad, 613 polling sections opened, 242 of them with a machine. There were 262 mobile sections for the two rounds. For people with visual impairments, 1,500 tactile ballot templates were printed.