2024 North Macedonian presidential election
24 April 2024 (first round)
8 May 2024 (potential second round)
President before election

Stevo Pendarovski
SDSM

 Elected President

TBD

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in North Macedonia on 24 April 2024. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, a second round will be held on 8 May, alongside parliamentary elections.[1]

Electoral system

The President of North Macedonia is elected using a modified two-round system; a candidate can only be elected in the first round of voting if they receive the equivalent of over 50% of the vote from all registered voters.[2] In the second round, voter turnout must be at least 40% for the result to be deemed valid.[3] Before 2009, the constitution required turnout in the second round to be 50% to validate the result. However, the XXXI amendment approved on 9 January 2009 lowered the threshold to 40%,[3] as the then-government feared the trend of reducing turnouts would lead to presidential elections being frequently invalidated. In the 2009 presidential elections, second round turnout was just 42.6%.[4]

The constitution mandates that the President must be over 40 years of age and have lived in the country for ten of the last fifteen years.

References

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary elections in North Macedonia/ The date when they will be held is revealed". CNA. 4 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Polls Open in Macedonia Presidential Elections Balkan Insight, 13 April 2014
  3. 1 2 Amendment XXXI Constitution of North Macedonia
  4. ↑ Anna Fruhstorfer & Michael Hein (2016) Constitutional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Reform of Political Systems Springer, p235
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