After the closing of poling stations in 57 out of a total of 84 municipalities in Macedonia on Sunday night, the opposition reported about alleged electoral thefts, pressure on citizens and arrivals of armed individuals at polling stations.
Observers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europ (OSCE) are expected to give their assessments of the elections on Monday.
According to the DPA news agency, some 400 international observers, deployed during the first-round elections, made numerous objections about suspicious procedures that followed the voting.
Western diplomats have warned Skopje that the local elections will serve as a key test for the country's capability of implementing western standards.
According to reports released from electoral headquarters of political parties that ran in the polls, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, supported by another four parties, won the elections in six municipalities in the capital of Skopje as well as in the towns of Bitola and Prilep and some 20 municipalities in central Macedonia.
The ruling coalition of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Democratic Liberal Party will have their mayors in over 30 small municipalities and the head of a municipality in the area of Skopje.
Skopje citizens will have to go to the polls for the third time as independent candidate Trifun Kostovski failed to win the necessary number of votes in Sunday's run-off to confirm his victory from the first round.
The ruling Democratic Union for Integration, a party representing ethnic Albanians, reported that it won the elections in eight municipalities
Ethnic Albanian opposition parties boycotted the second round of the vote due to what they called evident irregularities in the first round.