Former San Salvador mayor Nayib Bukele led El Salvador's presidential elections on Sunday, according to preliminary results from the Supreme Electoral Court.

Presidential hopeful Nayib Bukele and his wife Gabriela gesture at a polling station as they are surrounded by the press while voting in the presidential election in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. [Photo: AP/Moises Castillo]

With 24.67 percent of the ballots counted, Bukele garnered 52.2 percent of the votes.