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Local elections in Bulgaria come to an end 

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On 5 November, the run-off elections for mayors in 91 municipalities, 451 town halls and 31 districts (in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna) officially ended. 
According to preliminary data from the exit poll of Gallup International Balkan, BNR's partner in the local elections, by 8 p.m. the winner in Sofia is Vasil Terziev (PP-DB, Save Sofia) with 51.4 per cent, followed by Vanya Grigorova (supported by BSP for Bulgaria, the Left Party and others) with 44.3 per cent. 
Of those who voted for GERB/SDS in the first round in Sofia, 33% voted for Vasil Terziev in the run-off and 53% for Vanya Grigorova, according to Gallup exit poll data.
In Plovdiv, GERB won the election with its candidate Kostadin Dimitrov, who received 52.8 per cent of the vote.
The results in Varna and Blagoevgrad are tight - in Varna, PP-DB's Blagomir Kotsev gets 49.4% against 45.3% for GERB's Ivan Portnih, mayor of Varna since 2013 and running for a fourth term, and in Blagoevgrad, Metodi Baikushev (PP-DB) leads with 49.5% ahead of Ilko Stoyanov (independent), who got 48.1% of the vote.

There were 301 reports of electoral law violations received by the Ministry of Interior by 6 p.m. on polling day, and more than 2,600 since the start of the campaign. There were also problems with some of the voting machines, such as printing only one ballot paper when two votes were marked (for example, for mayor of a municipality and mayor of a district), or printing two ballot papers when two votes were marked and one was blank.



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