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According to preliminary data, UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko received 56.26 percent of the votes of Kyiv residents in the Kyiv mayoral elections held on May 25.

This data arrives after the vote count at 442 out of 1,083 polling stations in Kyiv.

His closest rival, Maidan activist Lesia Orobets, mustered 8.45 percent of the vote.

A total of 8.39 percent of Kyivans voted for incumbent head of Kyiv City State Administration Volodymyr Bondarenko, 7.45 percent – for ex-mayor of Kyiv Oleksandr Omelchenko, and 5.1 percent for European Party leader MP Mykola Katerynchuk.

According to the recent reports over 385 of electoral districts the following parties won seats in Kyiv City Council: Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR Party (39.41 percent), Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party (9.33 percent), the Samopomich Party, whose leader is Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy (6.64 percent), the Svoboda party (6.45 percent), and BYT-Batkivschyna (4.2 percent).

Besides, Civil Position (Anatoliy Hrytsenko) obtained 3.56 percent; MP Lesia Orobets’s Nove Zhyttia (New Life) with 3.27 percent, the Yednist (Unity) Party (Oleksandr Omelchenko) with 3.21 percent; the Democratic Alliance with 2.93 percent; European Party of Ukraine – 2.16 percent; Regions Party – 1.71 percent and “5.10” party – 1.58 percent.