Presidential election in Ukraine 2019

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Winner of the 2019 presidential election - Volodymyr Zelenskyi

The 2019 presidential election in Ukraine took place in two rounds on March 31, 2019 and April 21, 2019. In the second ballot, incumbent Petro Poroshenko and the actor Volodymyr Selenskyj faced each other in the runoff election . Zelenskyi clearly won the election with 73.22% of the vote. The turnout in the second ballot was 61.37%.

course

Called to take part in the presidential election in Ukraine were 34,544,993 voters. The announcement of the election process and thus the beginning of the election campaign was on December 30, 2018 by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine . The lawyer and former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ihor Shevchenko registered on December 31, 2018.

The first round of voting took place on March 31st. Their official result had to be reported by April 10, the result was published on April 3, 2019. If none of the candidates manage to achieve an absolute majority in the first ballot, a run-off election was planned for April 21, 2019. On April 23, 2019, the final results of the second round of voting were announced, the deadline was May 4. The oath of office of the newly elected president was taken on May 20, 2019 at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada and from that point on he was able to exercise his powers, the deadline was June 3.

According to the Central Election Commission, the presidential election will cost 2.354 billion UAH , which corresponds to around 75 million euros.

prehistory

After the early 2014 presidential election , which followed the anti-government protests in Ukraine with the dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych , the 2019 election took place at the end of incumbent President Petro Poroshenko's term of office .

Due to the Russian annexation of Crimea and the rule of pro-Russian rebels in parts of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine , around 12 percent of Ukrainian voters have not been able to take part in the election since 2014.

Candidates

A record number of candidates was expected in the 2019 presidential election. The candidates were able to register between December 31, 2018 and February 3, 2019. On February 9, 2019, the final list of presidential candidates was announced. The electoral commission refused to register more than 40 applicants for candidacy whose documents did not comply with the law or whose nomination process was incorrect.

The following presidential candidates - sorted alphabetically - were ultimately up for election:

1. Hennadij Balaschow
2. Roman Bessmertnyj
3. Olha Bohomolez
4. Inna Bohoslowska
5. Yuri Boiko
6. Viktor Bondar
7. Oleksandr Danylyuk
8. Yuri Derevyanko
9. Mykola Haber
10. Anatoly Hryzenko
11. Serhiy Kaplin
12. Yuri Karmasin
13. Arkady Kornatskyj
14. Ruslan Koschulynskyi
15. Viktor Kryvenko
16. Vitaly Kuprij
17. Illja Kywa
18. Oleh Lyashko
19. Julia Lytwynenko
20. Oleksandr Moros
21. Valentyn Nalyvaychenko
22. Roman Nassirow
23. Serhiy Nossenko
24. Andrij Nowak
25. Volodymyr Petrov
26. Petro Poroshenko
27. Ruslan Ryhovanov
28. Vitaly Skozyk
29. Ihor Shevchenko
30. Oleksandr Shevchenko
31. Vasyl Shuravlyov
32. Volodymyr Selenskyj
33. Ihor Smeschko
34. Oleksandr Solovyov
35. Serhiy Taruta
36. Yulia Tymoshenko
37. Yuri Tymoshenko
38. Oleksandr Vashchenko
39. Oleksandr Wilkul

First ballot

Survey

The last polls before the election predicted a victory in the first round of the actor Volodymyr Zelenskyj with 25-27%. Behind this, the opinion polls saw a relatively close fight for second place and thus for a place in the runoff election between the previous President Petro Poroshenko and Julija Tymoshenko ; the latter was seen in the final phase of the election campaign as an outsider in the struggle for the office of head of state.

Behind them are the party leader of the bourgeois position, Anatolij Hryzenko and Jurij Boiko from the opposition bloc , each with 8 to 11 percent, and the chairman of the Radical Party, Oleh Lyaschko, with 5-6 percent.

Institute	date	Yulia Tymoshenko	Volodymyr Selenskyj	Anatoly Hryzenko	Yuri Boiko	Petro Poroshenko	Oleh Lyashko	Svyatoslav Vakarchuk	Yevheny Murayev	Andrij Sadowyj	Vadym Rabinovych	Oleksandr Shevchenko	Oleksandr Wilkul	Others
Rating	March 27, 2019	17.2%	26.6%	9.8%	9.5%	17.2%	5.4%	-	-	-	-	-	4.0%	-
Razumkov	March 26, 2019	14.8%	24.8%	8.2%	10.0%	22.1%	6.0%	-	-	-	-	-	4.6%	-
Democratic initiative	March 26, 2019	12.8%	27.6%	8.4%	11.1%	18.2%	5.2%	-	-	-	-	-	4.0%	-
Institute for Social Studies	February 2019	16.2%	25.1%	11.3%	11.3%	16.6%	7.7%	-	-	5.6%	-	-	-	-
Sociological group "РЕЙТИНГ"	January 2019	15.1%	17.2%	6.6%	8.2%	11.7%	5.1%	-	2.7%	1.9%	-	1.8%	1.4%	28.3%
Institute for Social Studies	December 2018	20%	11.9%	11.6%	11.1%	10.9%	8.2%	3.8%	6.2%	5.5%	-	3.9%	-	6.9%
Razumkov & Rating	November 2018	21%	11.0%	10.0%	9.0%	10.0%	6.0%	-	-	-	-	-	-	33.0%
Mychajlo Drahomanow Sociological Center	November 2018	15.1%	10.0%	7.2%	6.6%	11.4%	5.4%	5.1%	3.7%	2.3%	2.7%	2.6%	-	28.9%
Kaz, Razumkov & Rating	November 2018	20.7%	10.3%	11.4%	9.9%	8.7%	7.6%	5.5%	5.1%	2.9%	3.7%	3.3%	-	10.9%

Forecasts

According to forecasts on election day of the first round of elections on March 31, a victory for the candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyi, followed by Petro Poroshenko. Yulia Tymoshenko is beaten in third place, followed by Jurij Boiko from the opposition bloc and Anatolij Hryzenko. Since the election winner could not win an absolute majority, there was a second ballot between Zelensky and Poroshenko on April 21, 2019.

Institute / client	Volodymyr Selenskyj	Petro Poroshenko	Yulia Tymoshenko	Yuri Boiko	Anatoly Hryzenko
Національний екзит-пол	30.4%	17.8%	14.2%	9.8%	7.1%
Екзит-пол SOCIS	29.25%	19.19%	13.75%	9.24%	7.91%
Екзит-пол 112 + NewsOne	30.7%	18.6%	13.9%	10.3%	7.3%
Екзит-пол ТСН	30.1%	18.5%	14.0%	9.1%	7.6%

choice

Participation in the first ballot

voter turnout

The turnout in the first ballot was 63.52%.

Result

Presidential election 2019; 1st ballot. Won constituencies:

Volodymyr Selenskyj

Petro Poroshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Yuri Boiko

The Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine published the figures in the following table on April 3, 2019 after 100% of the votes were counted.

candidate	Result
	Percentage ownership %	be right
Volodymyr Selenskyj	30.24	5,713,825
Petro Poroshenko	15.95	3,014,523
Yulia Tymoshenko	13.40	2,532,230
Yuri Boiko	11.67	2,205,974
Anatoly Hryzenko	06.91	1,306,411
Ihor Smeschko	06.04	1,141,302
Oleh Lyashko	05.48	1,035,944
Oleksandr Wilkul	04.15	0784.246
Ruslan Koschulynskyi	01.62	0307.240
Yuri Tymoshenko	00.62	0117,693
Others	02.80	0734.473
Invalid	01.18	0222,948

Second ballot

Presidential candidates at the speech duel on the stage at the Kiev Olympic Stadium on April 19, 2019

The second ballot was held on April 21, 2019, with 29,989 polling stations open between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. CEST for around 30 million voters in 200 constituencies. The election campaign ended two days before with a live TV broadcast of a speech duel between the presidential candidates in the Kiev Olympic Stadium, which was designed for 70,000 visitors . According to police, more than 20,000 people watched the event on site, with more than 10,000 security guards present on the stadium grounds, according to official information. In an exchange of blows, Zelenskyi presented himself as the result of Poroshenko's mistakes. The incumbent, in turn, accused the challenger of political inexperience, weakness in front of Putin and dependence on Ihor Kolomoysky . While Poroshenko tried to portray himself as the true guarantor of Ukrainian statehood, Zelenskyi presented himself as the representative of a new, more open country that is not ruled by corrupt oligarchs.

Survey

The opinion polls assumed a clear victory for Volodymyr Selenskyj. The last poll before election Sunday on April 21 was carried out by the polling institute “Rating”, whose data is based on the time window between April 12 and 16. It was released on April 18th. The respondents responded to the question “Who will you vote for in the second round of the presidential elections?” As follows: 52% named Zelenskyj, 19% Poroshenko, 19% had not yet made a decision and 10% did not intend to vote. Of those who want to vote in the runoff election, 58% intend to vote for Zelenskyi, 22% for Poroshenko and 20% have been undecided so far.

Before the first ballot

Institute	date	Volodymyr Selenskyj	Petro Poroshenko
Rating	December 27, 2018	29%	14%
BDM	January 14, 2019	30%	13%
Rating	January 24, 2019	34%	20%
KIIS	February 10, 2019	40%	18%
Razumkov	February 14, 2019	32%	19%
Sociopolis	15th February 2019	42%	18%
PPI	February 18, 2019	70%	30%
SORA, SM, UICI	March 31, 2019	49.4%	19.8%

After the first ballot

Institute	date	Volodymyr Selenskyj	Petro Poroshenko
Rating	April 10, 2019	51%	21%
Edison Research	April 13, 2019	55.1%	30.9%
KIIS	April 16, 2019	72.2%	25.4%
Rating	April 18, 2019	52%	19%

elections

Participation in the runoff on April 21, 2019

Presidential election 2019, second ballot: Constituencies won:

Volodymyr Selenskyj

Petro Poroshenko

voter turnout

In the second ballot, the turnout was 61.37 percent.

Result

The Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine published the following figures on April 23, 2019 after all votes were counted. According to this, Zelenskyi won a majority in all regions of Ukraine , except for Lviv Oblast , where Poroshenko was victorious.

candidate	Result
	Percentage ownership %	be right
Volodymyr Selenskyj	73.22	13,541,528
Petro Poroshenko	24.45	04,522,320
Invalid	02.31	00427.989

On May 20, 2019, the inauguration of Volodymyr Zelenskyi as Ukrainian President took place in Kiev .

Web links

Commons : Presidential Election of Ukraine 2019  - Pictures, Videos and Audio Files Collection

• Election results by regions of Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

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