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Presidential Elections Turnout at 26.2% by 1 PM

Sofia, November 6 (BTA) - A total of 1,790,608 people voted in the Bulgarian presidential elections by 1 p.m. on Sunday, putting voter turnout by that hour at 26.2 per cent, the Central Election Commission (CEC) reported. Fewer people - 1,557,444 - voted in the concurrent national referendum on the election system, which means that turnout in the referendum was 22.79 per cent at 1 p.m.

CEC Spokesman Tsvetozar Tomov said the presidential election turnout is higher by about 3 percentage points compared with the latest parliamentary ballot in 2014, which is unusual, because turnout at presidential elections is normally lower than that in parliamentary elections. The higher rate this time is partly due to the fact that voting in political elections has become compulsory, Tomov explained.