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Front runner in the early presidential election in Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is leading with 53.86 percent of votes after 50.26 percent of electronic voting reports have been processed, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on May 26 morning.

Yulia Tymoshenko received 13.1 percent, Oleh Liashko won 8.48 percent of votes, Anatoliy Hrytsenko – 5.48 percent, and Sergiy Tigipko – 5.18 percent.

According to the National exit poll 2014, Poroshenko obtained 55.7 percent of votes.

According to the parallel vote counting by Poroshenko’s headquarters,
people supported him by 54.13 percent of the votes (95 percent protocols).