The Central Election Commission (CEC) has received data of 99.88 percent of the protocols in the presidential elections of Ukraine.
Voting data are expected in Vinnytsia region (99.81 percent of protocols have been processed), in Kyiv region (99.36 percent of protocols have been processed), in Odesa region (99.31 percent of protocols have been processed), in Kherson region (99.87 percent of protocols have been processed), and in Chernivtsi region (98,23 percent of protocols have been processed).
Presidential candidates Volodymyr Zelenskiy and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko have received 30.23 percent and 15.95 percent of votes cast on March 31, respectively. Thus, they go into the second round of elections.
Some 13.39 percent of voters cast ballots for Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, followed by Opposition Platform – For Life candidate Yuriy Boiko with 11.67 percent.
Civil Position Party leader Anatoliy Hrytsenko received 6.91 percent, followed by ex-SBU State Security Service head Ihor Smeshko with 6.04 percent, Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko with 5.47 percent, Opposition Bloc leader Oleksandr Vilkul with 4.15 percent, and Svoboda Party leader Ruslan Koshulynsky with 1.62 percent.
Other candidates had less than 1 percent of the vote. Some 1.18 percent of ballots cast were ruled invalid.
According to the law, the presidential elections in Ukraine are held in two rounds. If in the first round on March 31 one of the candidates gets more than 50 percent of the votes cast, he is declared the winner. Otherwise, a second vote is held (second round), in which two candidates, who have scored the most votes in the first round, take part.
