Ukraine

1994 Presidential Elections

Date:  first round: 3 July; second round: 10 July
Number of
registered voters:
Turnout:
first round % ; second round: 71.63%
Votes: first round: total cast:
26,480,671; valid: 26,010,173; second round: total cast:26,883,642; valid: 26,784,552

Candidates

Party/ Nominated by

First Round

Second Round

Votes

% Votes

Votes

% Votes

Leonid Kravchuk

Independent

9,977,766

38.36

12,111,603

45.06

Leonid Kuchma

Independent

8,107,626

31.17

14,016,850

52.15

Oleksander Moroz

SPU

3,466,541

13.33

-

Volodymyr Lanoviy

Independent

2,483,986

9.55

Valeriy Babych

Independent

644,263

2.48

Ivan Pliushch

Independent

321,886

1.24

Petro Talanchuk Independent

143,361

0.55

Against all candidates

892,740

3.43

551,380

2.80

Total

26,010,173

100

26,784,552

100

LEGEND
SPU - Socialist Party of Ukraine

 

1999 Presidential Elections

Date: first round: 31 October; second round: 14 November
Number of
registered voters: first round: 37,498,630; second round: 37,680,581
Turnout:
first round: 70.15%; second round %
Votes: first round: total cast:
26,305,198; valid: 25,266,449; second round: total cast: 28,212,484; valid:27,506,323

 

Candidates

Party/ Nominated by First Round Second Round

Votes

% Votes

Votes

% Votes

Leonid D. Kuchma

Independent

9,598,672

36.49

15,870,722

56.25

Petro M. Symonenko

KPU

5,849,077

22.24

10,665,420

37.80

Oleksandr O. Moroz

SPU

2,969,896

11.29

- -

Nataliya M. Vitrenko

PSPU

2,886,972

10.97

- -

Yevhen K. Marchuk

Independent

2,138,356

8.13

- -

Yuriy I. Kostenko

Independent

570,623

2.17

- -

Hennadiy Y. Udovenko

NDU(Rukh)

319,778

1.22

- -

Vasyl V. Onopenko

SDPU

124,040

0.47

- -

Oleksandr  M. Rzhavskiy

One Homeland

96,515

0.37

- -

Yuriy A. Karmazin

PZV

90,793

0.35

- -

Vitaliy M. Kononov

PZU

76,832

0.29

- -

Oleksandr F. Bazyliuk

SP

36,012

0.14

- -

Mykola O. Haber

PPU

31,829

0.12

- -

Votes Against All Candidates:

477,019

1.81

970,181 3.44
TOTAL

25,266,449

100

27,506,323

100

LEGEND
KPU - Communist Party of Ukraine;
SPU - Socialist Party of Ukraine;
PSPU - Progressive Party of Ukraine;  v   
NRU (Rukh) - Popula Movement of Ukraine
SDPU - Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party;
"One Homeland" and Political Association;
PZV - Party of the Protection of the Fatherland;
PZU - Green Party;
SP - Slavic Party;
PPU - Patriotic Party of Ukraine

 

SOURCES:
Official results - Central Election Commission Ukraine, 1999
IFES - Ukraine site  
IFES Elections in Ukraine 1994, Kiev, 1995

 

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