Preliminary Results: Independent Candidate Leads Elections For Bucharest Mayoralty
Social democrat candidate Cristian Diaconescu ranks third with 12.47% of the votes.
Neither of the top-two candidates gained 50% plus one of the total votes to avoid a runoff.
The results were released after counting the votes cast at 1,136 polling stations, out of a total 1,181.
Overall turnout at polling places in Bucharest was of 31.14% of registered voters.