As of the morning of April 4 Central Election Commission processed 100% of electronic electoral protocols for presidential election in Ukraine, declared CEC on its website.
Popular vote is led by showman Volodymyr Zelensky. 30.24% of voters or 5 713 825 people voted for him. Sitting President Petro Poroshenko is in the second place with 15.95% (3 014 523 votes). %. Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of Batkivshchyna fraction in Parliament possesses the third position with 13.4% or 2 532 230 votes.
In the fourth place, there is Yuriy Boyko, out-of-fraction Member of Parliament, founder of "Opposition platform — For Life". He has 11.67%. The fifth is Anatoliy Hrytsenko, former Minister of Defence, Civil Position party leader, with 6.91%. Ihor Smeshko holds the sixth result with 6.04%. He is former Head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence and former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
After that voting results reads as following.
Oleh Lyashko, leader of the Radical Party – 5.48%.
Oleksandr Vilkul, Member of Parliament from Opposition Bloc – 4.15%.
Ruslan Koshulynskyi, united candidate from nationalist forces – 1.62%.
The rest of candidates received less than 1% of votes. 1.18% of ballots were declared invalid.
In total, 18 893 879 voters took part in election.
Zelensky won in 19 regions and in Kyiv, CEC imformed. In two regions, Lviv Oblast and Ternopil Oblast, Poroshenko took the lead. Two regions, Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast were won by Boyko, and one, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, — by Tymoshenko.
Commission continues to receive original protocols with wet seal stamps. As of the evening of April 3 CEC collected paper protocols from 111 electoral districts’ commissions. In total, there were 199 electoral districts in the country and one foreign electoral district)
Official results of first round of presidential election in Ukraine in 2019 are scheduled to be announced before April 10.
On March 31, 2019 the first round of the presidential election was held in Ukraine. There were a total of 39 candidates for the election on the ballot. Turnout according to CEC was 62.8%.
The second round voting will be held on April 21.
