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 With 45.03 percent of electronic voting reports processed, the People's Front has 21.62 percent of the vote, while the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko has 21.47 percent of the vote in Ukraine's early parliamentary elections.

The Samopomich Union received 11.13 percent of the vote, the Opposition Bloc got 9.76 percent, Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party 7.36 percent, and the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union 5.71 percent, according to the information board at the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) press center.

The Svoboda Party is close to the 5 percent election threshold, having scored 4.68 percent of the vote at the moment.

Other parties haven’t managed to clear the 5 percent hurdle for entering the parliament with the above-mentioned number of the voting reports processed.