Pro-Russian candidate Igor Dodon was on Sunday ahead in Moldova's presidential vote, viewed as an East-West choice in the impoverished ex-Soviet country, according to partial results.

Dodon, the pro-Moscow head of the Socialist Party, had 57.25 percent of the votes with more than 60 percent of ballots counted, the electoral commission said. Pro-European rival Maia Sandu had some 42.75 percent of the votes.