Preliminary results: Nikolić, Tadić, headed for run-off

Tomislav Nikolic has won 39.4 pct in today's presidential vote, followed by Boris Tadic's 35.4 pct. These are CeSID's complete preliminary results, which show that Nikolic's approximately 1,610,000 votes, and 1.450,000 ballots that went to Tadic, were not enough to produce a new president in the first round. Preliminary results: Nikolic, Tadic, headed for run-off The preliminary turnout figures are at 60.6 percent, with some 4,060,000 eligible voters having cast their ballots. As for other candidates who have won over 5 percent of the votes, they rank as follows: Velimir Ilic, 7.9 percent, Milutin Mrkonjic, 6.1 percent, Cedomir Jovanovic, 5.5 percent. Now CeSID says that the February 3 second round will be a tight and "extremely interesting race." RIK will offer its preliminary results in a news conference scheduled for later during the night. Voters were choosing from among nine candidates in Serbia's presidential election. 8,481 polling stations opened at 7 a.m. this morning, and closed at 8 p.m in the evening. A total of 6,708,697 citizens were eligible to vote – 112,861 of them registered in the southern province of Kosovo. 9,178 men and women serving in the country's armed forces were also eligible to cast their ballots. The voter tally included 37,053 Serbian citizens living abroad, and 8,201 who are currently incarcerated in the country's prisons. The vote was the eighth since the introduction of the multi-party system in 1990, but the first since Serbia once again became an independent country in 2006. Voters were casting their ballots to choose the country's first president, the order of the candidates' names on the ballot papers determined previously in a draw. The candidates were: Tomislav Nikolic (Serb Radical Party), Jugoslav Dobricanin (Reformist Party), Boris Tadic (Democratic Party), Velimir Ilic (New Serbia), Istvan Pastor (Hungarian Coalition), Marijan Risticevic (Coalition of People's Peasant Party and United Peasant Party), Cedomir Jovanovic (Liberal Democratic Party), Milutin Mrkonjic (Socialist Party of Serbia) and Milanka Karic (Force of Serbia Movement). The Electoral Commission and the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) were monitoring the elections and holding press conferences throughout the day to report on the turnout data. You can view the latest photos from the polling stations here. (CeSID)

Preliminary results: Nikolić, Tadić, headed for run-off

The preliminary turnout figures are at 60.6 percent, with some 4,060,000 eligible voters having cast their ballots.

As for other candidates who have won over 5 percent of the votes, they rank as follows: Velimir Ilić, 7.9 percent, Milutin Mrkonjić, 6.1 percent, Čedomir Jovanović, 5.5 percent.

Now CeSID says that the February 3 second round will be a tight and "extremely interesting race."

RIK will offer its preliminary results in a news conference scheduled for later during the night.

Voters were choosing from among nine candidates in Serbia's presidential election.

8,481 polling stations opened at 7 a.m. this morning, and closed at 8 p.m in the evening.

A total of 6,708,697 citizens were eligible to vote – 112,861 of them registered in the southern province of Kosovo.

9,178 men and women serving in the country's armed forces were also eligible to cast their ballots.

The voter tally included 37,053 Serbian citizens living abroad, and 8,201 who are currently incarcerated in the country's prisons.

The vote was the eighth since the introduction of the multi-party system in 1990, but the first since Serbia once again became an independent country in 2006.

Voters were casting their ballots to choose the country's first president, the order of the candidates' names on the ballot papers determined previously in a draw.

The candidates were: Tomislav Nikolić (Serb Radical Party), Jugoslav Dobričanin (Reformist Party), Boris Tadić (Democratic Party), Velimir Ilić (New Serbia), Istvan Pastor (Hungarian Coalition), Marijan Rističević (Coalition of People's Peasant Party and United Peasant Party), Čedomir Jovanović (Liberal Democratic Party), Milutin Mrkonjić (Socialist Party of Serbia) and Milanka Karić (Force of Serbia Movement).

The Electoral Commission and the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) were monitoring the elections and holding press conferences throughout the day to report on the turnout data.

You can view the latest photos from the polling stations here.