2010 Ukrainian Presidential Election First Round Results

By Bridgette Hudson | Thursday, January 21, 2010

There are 36,826,251 registered voters in Ukraine and only 24,614,827 had cast their votes. Ninety-six percent or 23,665,661 were considered valid votes and 949,166 or almost 4% were considered invalid votes.

Current leader of the influential opposition Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, Viktor Yanukovych, led the first round of voting which was held on January 17. He gathered 36.74% (8,694,784) of votes giving him a 10-point lead over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s 26.05% (6,165,833) of votes.

“I am open for talks from now on, so that one can move on as a part of united democratic forces.”

Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine Prime Minister

Tymoshenko will face Yanukovych in a Feb. 7 runoff vote. Incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko who led Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, ranked fifth in Sunday’s presidential election. But even though he was eliminated, he said that he will not leave politics.

I fulfilled my democratic duties as president but national and state obligations give me no moral right to leave Ukrainian political life.”

Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine

Here is the complete results of 2010 Ukraine presidential election:

CANDIDATES	PARTY	TOTAL VOTES
Viktor Yanukovych	Party of Regions	8,694,784
Yulia Tymoshenko	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc	6,165,833
Serhiy Tihipko	Labour Ukraine	3,213,359
Arseniy Yatsenyuk	Front for Change	1,713,636
Viktor Yushchenko	Our Ukraine	1,345,989
Petro Symonenko	Communist Party of Ukraine	873,107
Volodymyr Lytvyn	-	579,188
Oleh Tyahnybok	All-Ukrainian Union	353,907
Anatoliy Hrytsenko	Our Ukraine	297,146
Inna Bohoslovska	-	102,529
Oleksandr Moroz	Socialist Party of Ukraine	95,232
Yuriy Kostenko	Ukrainian People’s Party	54,404
Liudmyla Suprun	People’s Democratic Party	47,373
Vasily Protyvsih	-	40,408
Oleksandr Pabat	People’s Salvation Army	35,509
Serhiy Ratushniak	-	29,869
Mykhaylo Brodskyy	Party of Free Democrats	15,016
Oleh Riabokon	-	8,372