Voter turnout at 38.16% at 17 p.m.
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38.16% of total voters or 1,337,284 people have cast their votes in the presidential elections.
The polls will close at 20 p.m. tonight.
Voter turnout has been the highest (53.6%) in Ambrolauri, Racha and the lowest in Marneuli (28.7%).
Voter turnout in Tbilisi amounted to 36.2%, the CEC announced several hours earlier.
The Central Election Commission has reported that 30.98% of total voters have voted for their favourite presidential candidate so far which amounts to 1,085,730 people.
Organisations observing the presidential elections have presented a list of violations that have been reported so far at polling stations.
Georgia is electing its fifth president on Sunday and for the first time in the Georgian history a female candidate has a real chance to take the post.
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Natia Mezvrishvili has held a briefing where she reported on the election process and incidents in or near polling stations.
The Georgian Dream ruling party, the European Georgia opposition party and Rustavi 2 private broadcaster have released the results of exit polls they have conducted. The exit poll results were announced as soon as all polling stations in Georgia were closed at 8 pm.
Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze has thanked voters for turning out to vote today.
Chairman of the Political Council of the Georgian Dream ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili says that the United National Movement opposition will try to stir election-related confrontations.
3,689 of a total of 3,705 polling stations have been counted: the ruling Georgian Dream party supported independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili received 38.6 per cent of the vote and the presidential candidate of ten opposition parties, Grigol Vashadze, received 37.7 per cent.
The Georgian Dream ruling party says that the results of yesterday’s presidential elections carried a message to them from the Georgian people.
The presidential candidate of ten opposition parties Grigol Vashadze, who came second in the presidential race based on the current data of the Central Election Commission, says that it is no time for euphoria as the second round of the elections is still ahead.
87-year-old Data Vanishvili, whose yard is divided in two by Russian-erected illegal barbed wire fences, crossed the occupation line early in the morning to cast his vote in the presidential elections.