Officials have begun the time-consuming process of counting paper ballots, with no results expected for eight days.
The Caribbean nation was choosing a new president and lawmakers.
The results of the October 2015 vote were thrown out, creating a power vacuum when then-president Michel Martelly’s mandate expired in February.
Haiti has suffered from decades of corruption and, in recent years, a series of crippling natural disasters.
Voter turnout appeared low in south-western Haiti, according to reports – an area ravaged by Hurricane Matthew last month and drenched by rain on Sunday.
In the capital, Port-au-Prince, voters queued from early in the morning to cast their ballots.
“This is my responsibility as a citizen,” Alain Joseph, a motorcycle taxi driver in the city, told the Associated Press.
Helene Olivier, 72, said she was inspired to vote for the first time in the hope that a woman would win. Two of the 27 candidates on the ballot were women.
Hurricane Matthew left hundreds of people dead and destroyed thousands of homes.
Many are still living in temporary accommodation, including in schools which were due to be used as polling stations on Sunday.
There is hope among Haitians that the election may kick-start the process of rebuilding the disaster-hit nation.
“[I want] for everyone to come together, for the country to be rebuilt,” Judeline Hubert, a 23-year-old nursing student from the south-western port of Les Cayes, told Reuters.
The new president is expected to take over from Jocelerme Privert, the interim president, in February, following a possible second-round vote between the top two candidates in January.
The vote was monitored by the United Nations.
