SofiaIotova leads at 35.3%, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Exit polls put Andrey Gyurov, Bulgaria’s opposition-backed former prime minister, second on 32.2%.

TASS put turnout at about 22.3%, a record low that it said came as a surprise.

Neither candidate passed 50%, so Iotova and Gyurov meet in a runoff on 1 November.

How each outlet framed it
TASS
gives the record-low turnout of about 22.3% alongside Iotova's 35.3% lead, a figure the other outlets omit

Sources: TASS