However the greatest test may even now lie ahead for the 59-year-old previous socialist apparatchik - setting up an indistinguishable level of power from his almighty forerunner, Islam Karimov, in whose shadow Mirziyoyev spent over 10 years.
Karimov, who ran the asset rich previous Soviet republic of 32 million individuals with an iron clench hand since 1989, passed on from a stroke in September, matured 78.
Mirziyoyev, bureau head since 2003, quickly rose as Karimov's in all likelihood successor after the speaker of the upper chamber Senate moved to one side for him. Under the constitution, the speaker would ordinarily expect the part of between time head of state.
The span of Mirziyoyev's race triumph, whether he secures a practical 65-70 percent of the vote or a Karimov-style 90 or more percent, will show how much power he needs to change the political and monetary frameworks, said Kazakhstan-based Focal Asia examiner Alexander Knyazev.
"The result will demonstrate whether the state mechanical assembly is prepared for changes," he said.
Surveying stations opened at 6 a.m. (0100 GMT) and 55.8 percent of Uzbekistan's more than 20 million qualified voters had as of now cast their votes by 1 p.m., the Focal Race Commission said, well over the base 33 percent edge set by law.
Surveys close at 8 p.m. (1500 GMT), with preparatory outcomes expected later in the day.
Mirziyoyev did not address columnists when he went to make his choice with his family at a surveying station in Tashkent.
Regardless of swearing progression, Mirziyoyev has declared arrangements for financial changes, including an advancement of the firmly controlled outside trade advertise, and has acted to straightforwardness strains in relations with neighboring Focal Asian nations.
"We are seeing numerous positive changes throughout our life, we seek after significantly more positive changes in our nation," said Temur Samiev, a retired person, as he voted in Tashkent.
Representatives say Mirziyoyev is additionally anticipated that would draw Uzbekistan nearer to Russia, its Soviet-period overlord.
A designer via preparing, Mirziyoyev started rising the Comrade Party vocation stepping stool in the 1980s, turning into an individual from Uzbekistan's governing body when the Soviet Union fallen in 1991.
As indicated by a 2009 Joined States international safe haven link distributed by Wikileaks, Karimov viewed Mirziyoyev as "amateurish" and wanted to supplant him in the long run, in spite of the fact that not instantly.
Control SHARING
As indicated by another international safe haven link, sent in 2008, Mirziyoyev had educated state media to never demonstrate him on television inspired by a paranoid fear of making Karimov envious. Karimov was holding Mirziyoyev as bureau head due to his devotion to Karimov's family, a similar link said.
Conciliatory and business sources have told Reuters that Mirziyoyev has possessed the capacity to secure support for his presidential offer from Uzbekistan's capable casual families by consenting to impart energy to two other political heavyweights, Appointee PM Rustam Azimov and security boss Rustam Inoyatov.
A few examiners, be that as it may, say this course of action may just defer the battle for extreme power inside the political tip top, which may destabilize the Muslim country, which fringes Afghanistan.
The Unified States, Russia and China all watch improvements in Uzbekistan nearly and are worried about its solidness since it is a noteworthy exporter of regular gas and cotton. No less than two million Uzbeks work abroad, generally in Russia.
Tashkent battled an Islamist uprising in the a huge number of Uzbeks are accepted to have joined Islamic State activists battling in Syria and Iraq.
Running against Mirziyoyev in Sunday's decision are Khatamjon Ketmonov, Narimon Umarov and Sarvar Otamuratov, the candidates of three gatherings in parliament which introduce themselves as the resistance yet have constantly toed the official line.

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