Presidential election in Ukraine 2010
The 2010 presidential election in Ukraine took place on January 17th and February 7th (runoff). Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych emerged as the winner . He was sworn in on February 25, 2010 as the fourth President of Ukraine .
Dispute over the election date
On April 1, 2009, the Ukrainian parliament passed the election date October 25 with 401 votes out of 450. The incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko had previously spoken out in favor of an appointment in January 2010. The Ukrainian Constitution states that the election should take place on the last Sunday of the president's fifth year in office. However, it was disputed whether this should already be applied after the relevant provision had only been created during the current term of office. President Yushchenko challenged the parliamentary decision on the election date in the Constitutional Court. This decided on May 12, 2009 that the October 25 election date was not constitutional. The first round of the presidential election had to take place on January 17, 2010.
Discussion about constitutional amendments
Representatives of the ruling bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BJuT) and the opposition Party of Regions (PR) held talks in mid-2009 about the formation of a grand coalition to overcome the political blockade in Ukraine. There was also talk of a constitutional amendment to allow parliament to elect the president in future. The chairman of the PR, Viktor Yanukovych , however, spoke out in favor of maintaining the direct election. On June 7th, Prime Minister Tymoshenko declared the coalition talks with Yanukovych to have failed because the latter had demanded a minimum age of 50 for presidential candidates in order to reduce the number of possible opponents through legal means.
Candidates
The following 18 candidates were registered for election:
- Inna Bohoslowska , Member of Parliament, elected for the Party of Regions , Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality
- Mychajlo Brodskyj , leader of the Free Democratic Party
- Anatoly Hryzenko , Member of Parliament, Member of Our Ukraine , Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense
- Viktor Yanukovych , party and parliamentary group leader of the Party of Regions , runner-up in the 2004 presidential election
- Arseniy Yatsenjuk , Member of Parliament
- Viktor Yushchenko , Incumbent, member of the party " Our Ukraine "
- Jurij Kostenko , member of the Ukrainian People's Party , MP
- Volodymyr Lytwyn , President of Parliament, Chairman of the blok Lytwyna electoral alliance
- Oleksandr Moros , Chairman of the Socialist Party of Ukraine
- Oleksandr Pabat , President of the Community "Civil Active Kiev"
- Wassyl Protywsich , born Humenjuk , independent, President of the Ivano-Frankivsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (his new name, which he recently adopted, can be translated as "against all", Proty wsich , a voting option on the ballot paper)
- Serhiy Ratuschnjak , non-party, mayor of the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod
- Oleh Ryabokon , non-party, entrepreneur
- Petro Symonenko , chairman of the Communist Party of Ukraine and parliamentary group leader in the Verkhovna Rada
- Ljudmyla Suprun , member of the People's Democratic Party , chairman of the State Agency of Ukraine for Investment and Innovation
- Serhiy Tihipko , chairman of the party " Strong Ukraine "
- Oleh Tjahnybok , member and chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association "Freedom"
- Yulia Tymoshenko , Prime Minister, member of the All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" , chairwoman of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc
Incumbent Viktor Yushchenko
Yulia Tymoshenko
Viktor Yanukovych
Serhiy Tihipko
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Volodymyr Lytvyn
Anatoly Hryzenko
Oleh Tjahnybok
Results
First ballot
| candidate | 1st ballot 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| be right | proportion of | |
| Viktor Yanukovych | 8,687,000 | 35.32% |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | 6,160,000 | 25.05% |
| Serhiy Tihipko | 3,211,000 | 13.05% |
| Arseniy Yatsenyuk | 1,712,000 | 6.96% |
| Viktor Yushchenko | 1,342,000 | 5.45% |
| Petro Symonenko | 873,000 | 3.54% |
| Volodymyr Lytvyn | 579,000 | 2.35% |
| Oleh Tjahnybok | 352.282 | 1.43% |
| Anatoly Hryzenko | 296,000 | 1.2% |
| Inna Bohoslowska | 102,000 | 0.41% |
| Oleksandr Moros | 95,000 | 0.38% |
| Yury Kostenko | 54,000 | 0.22% |
| Ljudmyla Suprun | 47,000 | 0.19% |
| Wassyl Protywsich | 40,000 | 0.16% |
| Oleksandr Pabat | 35,000 | 0.14% |
| Serhiy Ratuschnjak | 30,000 | 0.12% |
| Mychajlo Brodskyj | 15,000 | 0.06% |
| Oleh Ryabokon | 8,334 | 0.03% |
| 1 Zentralna vybortscha komissija Ukrajiny | ||
- While Viktor Yanukovych was in the lead in all regions of eastern Ukraine , Yulia Tymoshenko led in almost all regions of western Ukraine . Exception: Yanukovych also led Tymoshenko in the western Ukrainian Oblast of Transcarpathia , where a regionalist Russian movement is active.
- In most regions of western Ukraine, Yanukovych received the second most votes after Tymoshenko. Exceptions: Viktor Yushchenko came second in the Galician regions of Ivano-Frankivsk , Ternopil and Lviv . Serhiy Tihipko was runner-up in Volyn Oblast and the capital, Kiev, and Arseny Yatsenyuk came second in Chernivtsi Oblast .
- In most regions of eastern Ukraine, Tihipko and not Tymoshenko received the second most votes behind Yanukovych. Exception: Tymoshenko came second in the regions of Cherson , Crimea and Mykolaiv .
Runoff
| candidate | be right | proportion of |
|---|---|---|
| Viktor Yanukovych | 12,480,335 | 48.95% |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | 11,593,202 | 45.47% |
In the runoff election on February 7, 2010, Viktor Yanukovych received 49% and Julia Tymoshenko 46% of the vote. The results matched all independent exit polls that were conducted prior to the vote count. Election observers from the OSCE and other international observer missions also rated the presidential election as meeting international standards. The Yulia Tymoshenko bloc announced that it would challenge the election results in court and aim for a third round of voting; after a hearing before the Supreme Administrative Court, Tymoshenko withdrew her election complaint. She described her complaint as pointless and accused the court of partiality. A little later, on February 25, 2010, Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as President of Ukraine.
See also
- History of Ukraine # The Yushchenko Presidency (on the history of the election)
- History of Ukraine # Yanukovych and domestic political struggle
Individual evidence
- ↑ AFP : Early presidential election in Ukraine on October 25 ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ NEWSru.com: КС признал, что выборы президента 25 октября являются неконституционными ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 has not been checked automatically in the Internet link. ) Info: Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NEWSru.com : Коалиция под вопросом: Янукович заявил, что президент должен избираться всенародно ( Memento of the original on 13 August 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NEWSru.com: Тимошенко: коалиция сорвалась из-за "экзотического" требования Януковича ( Memento of the original June 12, 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Congresses of Ukrainian parties to name presidential candidates , ITAR-TASS on March 29, 2014
- ↑ Zentralna vybortscha komissija Ukrajiny
- ↑ a b c RIA Novosti of January 21, 2010: Voting results in the Ukrainian regions (infographic)
- ↑ Der Standard : OSCE: Wahl was an impressive representation of democracy ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 10, 2010
- ↑ KAS foreign information, 4/2010 / Nico Lange: After the presidential elections: How to consolidate the Ukrainian democracy?
- ↑ Korrespondent.net: БЮТ готов "делать все, чтобы был третий тур" выборов , February 10, 2010
- ↑ Tagesschau : Tymoshenko accepts the defeat ( Memento from February 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , February 20, 2010.
