{"id":2320,"date":"2026-11-02T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5000.news\/cik-balotazh-2-noemvri-2026-9968-protokoli-yotova-gyurov\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:18:30","slug":"cik-balotazh-2-noemvri-2026-9968-protokoli-yotova-gyurov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/cik-balotazh-2-noemvri-2026-9968-protokoli-yotova-gyurov\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC at 5:00 a.m.: Yotova leads with 57.66% as 99.68% of protocols are processed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iliyana Yotova and Kiril Valchev have received 57.66% of the valid votes in the presidential runoff<\/strong> held on November 1, 2026, with 99.68% of precinct protocols processed, according to Central Election Commission figures reported as of 5:00 a.m. on November 2. Andrey Gyurov and Georgi Kandev have 39.38%.<\/p>\n<p>The Yotova\u2013Valchev ticket has received <strong>1,091,206 votes<\/strong>, while the Gyurov\u2013Kandev ticket has received <strong>745,303 votes<\/strong>. The 'I support no one' option was selected by <strong>55,938 voters<\/strong>. These are interim figures and may change until all protocols have been processed.<\/p>\n<h2>What the count shows<\/h2>\n<p>Yotova and Valchev lead by about 18.3 percentage points. Earlier figures based on 99.56% of processed protocols also showed their ticket ahead. These figures refer to <strong>the November 1 runoff<\/strong>, not the first round of voting held on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed results by electoral district and polling station are published by the Central Election Commission. The final certified result should be distinguished from interim figures, each identified by its exact reporting time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Element5 Digital \/ Unsplash \u2014 illustrative image, not from Bulgaria's 2026 election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/results.cik.bg\/pvr202610\/tur2\/rezultati\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Election Commission \u2014 second-round results<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/darik.bg\/99-68-obraboteni-protokoli-iliana-i-valchev-57-66~550199.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darik.bg, November 2, 2026, 5:33 a.m.<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bta.bg\/bg\/news\/bulgaria\/1237816-pri-99-56-obraboteni-protokoli-yotova-i-valchev-pechelyat-izborite-s-57-69-ot-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulgarian News Agency \u2014 earlier figures with 99.56% of protocols processed<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 99.68% of precinct protocols processed, the CEC reports 57.66% for Yotova\u2013Valchev and 39.38% for Gyurov\u2013Kandev as of 5:00 a.m., November 2, 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[16,50],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-politika","tag-aktualno","tag-50"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/5000.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/\u0418\u0437\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043d\u0438-\u0434\u043e\u043a\u0443\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0438-\u2014-Element5-Digital-Unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}