Macedonian presidential election, 2004

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Presidential elections were held in Macedonia on 14 April 2004, with a second round on 28 April. They followed the death in an air crash in February of incumbent President Boris Trajkovski.

Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski of the Social Democratic Union won the first round. As he failed to cross the 50% threshold, a second round was held in which he defeated Saško Kedev of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity. In the immediate aftermath, Kedev alleged massive electoral fraud.

Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Branko Crvenkovski	Social Democratic Union	385,347	42.5	550,317	62.6
Saško Kedev	VRMO-DPMNE	309,132	34.1	329,179	37.4
Gzim Ostreni	Democratic Union for Integration	134,208	14.8
Zidi Xhelili	Democratic Party of Albanians	78,714	8.7
Invalid/blank votes		27,971	–	29,793	–
Total		935,372	100	909,289	100
Registered voters/turnout		1,695,103	55.2	1,695,103	53.6
Source: Nohlen & Stöver