The results island wide in the presidential elections with 100% votes counted are:

Registered voters: 545.491
Votes cast: 453,498 (83.14%)

Abstention: 91,993 (16.86%)
Valid: 441,212 (97.29%)

Void: 7,826 (1.73%)
Blank: 4,460 (0.98%)

Candidates
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Nicos Anastasiades 45.46% 200,571
Stavros Malas 26.91% 118,725

Giorgos Lillikas – 24.93% 110,000
Praxoulla Antoniadou Kyriakou 0.61% 2,680

Lakis Ioannou 0.29% 1,278
George Charalambous 0.88% 3,900

Loucas Stavrou 0.05% 213
Andreas Efstratiou – 0.10% 434

Costas Kyriacou (Utopos) – 0.16% 723
Solon Gregoriou – 0.18% 792

Makaria Antri Stylianou – 0.43% 1,896

A candidate needs to secure 50% plus one vote to be elected. If no candidate secures this majority, the two candidates to secure most of the votes will go into a run off election.

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