The presidential and vice-presidential ticket of Andrey Gurov and Georgi Kandev received the most votes in the Bulgarian presidential election held on Sunday in the Netherlands, with 2,991 votes (66.82%), according to Central Election Commission (CEC) data as of 10 a.m. on Monday, with 100% of tally sheets protocols processed.
Iliana Iotova and Kiril Valchev ranked second with 515 votes (11.51%), followed by Kostadin Kostadinov and Petar Volgin with 276 votes (6.17%), Radostin Vasilev and Krasimir Manov with 179 votes (4%), Ivelin Mihaylov and Yuliana Mateeva with 165 votes (3.69%), and Ivan Hristanov and Stoyanka Cherkezova with 65 votes (1.45%). The remaining presidential and vice-presidential tickets each received less than 1% of the vote.
According to these still preliminary figures, 154 voters (3.44%) in the Netherlands selected the “I do not support any candidate” option.
According to Statistics Netherlands, 63,240 Bulgarian citizens were officially registered in the country in 2026.
A total of 24 polling stations were opened in the Netherlands for the Bulgarian presidential and vice-presidential election, including four in The Hague.
The tickets of Iliana Iotova and Kiril Valchev, and Andrey Gurov and Georgi Kandev will face each other in the runoff next Sunday, November 1.
Gurov-Kandev Gathers 69.2% of Votes in the Netherlands, Iotova-Valchev Second with 11.9% 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-10-26 09:34:00
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