Turks headed to the polls today to vote for the first time for their country’s president and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to sweep to victory.

The polls closed at 5 p.m local time and Turkish media published the percentages gathered by the candidates.

According to CNN Türk, the current Prime Minister gathers 56.4% of the votes followed by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu with 32.9% and Selahattin Demirtas with 10.7%.

At the same time the Turkish Hurriyet reports that Erdogan emerges victorious from the first round with 57%, while 43% of votes have already been counted.

Around 53 million voters were to cast their ballots at more than 160,000 polling stations for the first election in which the president will be elected by popular vote.