With 97.05 percent of votes counted for Ukraine’s early parliamentary elections of July 21, the Servant of the People Party has won 43.13 percent of the vote, Opposition Platform – For Life 13.04 percent, Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna 8.18 percent, Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity 8.12 percent, and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Holos (Voice) 5.84 percent; results that make the five parties eligible to enter the Verkhovna Rada.
According to the electronic board of Ukraine’s Central Election Commission (CEC), parties failing to cross the 5 percent barrier include the Radical Party, which is currently garnering 4.02 percent, Strength and Honor (3.81 percent), Opposition Bloc (3.04 percent), and Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s Ukrainian Strategy Party (2.39 percent).
The Party of Sharij has received 2.23 percent of the vote, Svoboda 2.16 percent, and Civil Position 1.05 percent.
Parties gaining less than 1 percent of the vote are the Party of Greens of Ukraine (0.66 percent) and Samopomich (0.6 percent).
