You're reading: Various exit polls put Poroshenko Bloc candidate, Kolomoisky’s associate ahead of others in Rada by-election in Chernihiv

A parliamentary candidate from Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Serhiy Berezenko, has mustered 31.4 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll conducted in the parliamentary by-election in constituency No. 205 (Chernihiv) by the Socis Center for Social and Marketing Research for the Ukrainian Electorate Committee.

Meanwhile, according to the findings of an exit poll by the Inter television channel on Sunday evening, Berezenko’s main rival, Hennadiy Korban of the Ukrainian Union of Patriots has won 17.1 percent of the vote.

Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union candidate Andriy Mischenko has come third, with 10 percent of the vote, and Ihor Andriychenko of the Democratic Alliance is in the fourth place, with 9 percent.

Independents Volodymyr Zub and Mykola Zverev came fifth and sixth (with 7 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively), Opposition Bloc’s Oleksiy Demianenko is in the seventh place (4.5 percent).

The other candidates mustered less than 3 percent each.

The exit poll interviewed a total of 2,011 people.

Meanwhile, according to an exit poll by Dobrochyn, a Chernihiv-based public organization, Korban, who is a close associate of Ihor Kolomoisky, mustered 22.8 percent of the vote in the parliamentary by-election in Chernihiv on July 26.

According to our poll, Poroshenko Bloc candidate Berezenko came second, having mustered 14.6 percent of the vote, Dobrochyn deputy chief Oleksandr Pidhorny told a press conference after the voting ended in Chernihiv on Sunday, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.