Presidential election in Ukraine 2014

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Poroshenko won in all constituencies except for the Chuhuiviv constituency , which Michajlo Dobkin won.
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    • The early presidential election in Ukraine in 2014 took place on May 25, 2014.

    The election campaign for the presidency in Ukraine began after the election date was announced on February 25, 2014. Candidates had to register by April 4, 2014.

    The turnout for the presidential election was 59.57%. Petro Poroshenko won an absolute majority with 54.70% of the vote and was officially declared the winner of the presidential election by the election commission on the evening of May 26, 2014. Thus, Poroshenko was after the first ballot designated President of Ukraine, with which a second election as ballot was invalid.

    prehistory

    As a result of the ongoing protests against the government in Ukraine , President Viktor Yanukovych, after long negotiations with opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko , Arseniy Yatsenjuk and Oleh Tjahnybok , agreed on February 21, 2014, among other things, after the adoption of a new constitution and no later than December 2014 To hold new elections. However, the deal was rejected by the majority of demonstrators in Independence Square , who called for the president to resign immediately. After numerous other members of parliament had left the faction of Yanukovych's Party of Regions on February 22nd and Yanukovych had fled to an unknown destination, the Verkhovna Rada decided to remove Yanukovych and elect May 25th.

    Candidates

    The opposition politicians Vitali Klitschko and Julija Tymoshenko each announced that they would run for the office of head of state. The former governor of the Kharkiv Oblast , Mykhailo Dobkin , of the Party of Regions belongs, announced on 24 February 2014 his candidacy for president. As a reason for his candidacy, he cited laws that threaten all those who “ do not want to join fascism and nationalism ” and calls for the arbitrary persecution of people who hold views that differed from the opinions of the new authorities. Dobkin was arrested on March 10th. He is accused of secessionism . On March 11, Dobkin was sentenced to house arrest in his Kiev apartment. However, since entrepreneur Rinat Akhmetov gave an assurance that Dobkin would appear in court, he has been allowed to leave his apartment between 9 a.m. and 2 a.m. On March 28, Dobkin was nominated for the presidential candidate of the Party of Regions. Dobkin advocates that the governors of the regions should be elected democratically and not by the president . In addition, he initially campaigned for the conversion of Ukraine into a federal state , but left it on April 6th. As an explanation, he cited that there was no political culture for it in Ukraine. Dmytro Yarosh , the chairman of the Pravyj Sector group , also announced his candidacy on March 7, 2014.

    Another candidate was Petro Poroshenko . After the announcement of Poroshenko's candidacy, Klitschko renounced his own on March 29, 2014 and announced that he would support Poroshenko. Renat Kusmin was the first applicant to register as a candidate on March 17, 2014. A total of 23 candidates were allowed to vote. Natalija Korolewska and Oleh Zarjow, however, declared that they would not participate. In addition, the candidates Shkirjak, Symonenko, Klymenko and Beschko withdrew their candidacy. Since the applicable deadline had already passed, the waiver by these four politicians was no longer effective.

    Survey

    Institute date Poroshenko Tymoshenko Dobkin Tihipko Tjahnybok Symonenko Others
    Razumkov Center 28.03. - 04/02/2014 42.3% 19.1% 5.2% 8.8% 2.3% 4.6% 17.7%
    Advanced Legal Initiatives (?) 03/31/2014 (?) 42.0% 12.7% 1.2% 12.7% 3.6% 3.5% 17.2%
    Baltic Surveys / Gallup Organization on behalf of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 04/03 - 04/12/2014 29.0% 13.0% 5.0% 6.0% 3.0% 4.0% 41.0%

    Forecasts

    Shortly after the polling stations closed at 8 p.m., Kiev time, the results of three post-election polls were published. It became apparent that the candidate Petro Poroshenko would win in the first election round. Poroshenko then declared himself the election winner and spoke out in favor of early parliamentary elections.

    Institute / client Poroshenko Tymoshenko Lyashko Hryzenko Tihipko Dobkin Rabinovych Bohomolets Tjahnybok Symonenko Yarosh
    TNS 57.31% 12.39% 8.69% 6.0% 4.4% 2.3% 2.0% 1.8% 1.5% 1.3% -
    Razumkov Center u. a. 55.9% 12.9% 8.0% 6.3% 4.7% 2.1% 1.9% 1.9% 1.3% 1.3% 0.9%
    Sawik Schuster Studio 55.7% 12.9% 8.8% 6.0% 4.6% 2.7% 2.1% 2.1% 1.3% 1.2% 1.1%

    choice

    Election process

    In the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, voting was violently prevented by separatist forces in some of the polling stations, possibly also because of negative attitudes towards the Ukrainian state. In the city of Novoajdar near Luhansk there were violent attacks on polling stations by separatists who took control of the ballot papers. As a result, one person was killed in an exchange of fire with Ukrainian soldiers. Residents of the Russian- annexed Crimean peninsula had the opportunity to vote in other parts of the country.

    Turnout by Rajons

    voter turnout

    Of 35,500,913 registered voters, 18,019,456 took part in the election. This corresponds to a national voter turnout, excluding the Russian-annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol , 59.57%. Taking into account those eligible to vote in Crimea, the turnout drops to 50.76%.

    According to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine , the highest voter turnout was in the western oblasts of Lviv with 78.1% and Ternopil with 76.63% followed by Ivano-Frankivsk with 73.95%. The lowest voter turnout was in eastern Ukraine in the crisis region of Donetsk with 15.37% and Luhansk with 38.94%. In the capital Kiev , turnout was 62.7%.

    Result

    Election results for Poroshenko to Oblast

    Result after counting all votes cast on May 29, 2014.

    candidate Result
    proportion of be right
    Petro Poroshenko 54.70 9,856,911
    Yulia Tymoshenko 12.81 2,309,812
    Oleh Lyashko 8.32 1,500,333
    Anatoly Hryzenko 5.48 989.028
    Serhiy Tihipko 5.23 943.451
    Mychajlo Dobkin 3.03 546.138
    Vadym Rabinovych 2.25 406.368
    Olha Bohomolez 1.91 345.386
    Petro Symonenko 1.51 272.858
    Oleh Tjahnybok 1.16 210.504
    Dmytro Jarosch 0.70 127,818
    Andrei Hrynenko 0.40 73.277
    other 1.01 192.943
    declared invalid 1.35

    Poroshenko received the most approval in the Lviv Oblasts (69.90%), Vinnytsia (67.32%) and Ivano-Frankivsk (65.13%), while Yulia Tymoshenko in the Chernihiv Oblast (19.51%), Chernivtsi ( 18.84%) and Volyn (17.30%) received the highest voter approval.

    Swearing in and inauguration

    The swearing-in and inauguration is regulated in Chapter V, Article 104 of the Ukrainian Constitution .

    The acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov announced in the Ukrainian parliament on May 29th that after all votes had been counted, Poroshenko had finally been chosen as the winner of the election and ordered all preparations to be made for the inauguration. According to the presidential administration's press office, the swearing-in ceremony is to take place on Independence Square in Kiev , according to Turchynov's instructions , in order to highlight the outstanding role played by the Euromaidan protests in the upheavals and to honor those who fell there. His inauguration took place on June 7, 2014 in the Verkhovna Rada in the presence of the German President Joachim Gauck .

    Web links

    Commons : Presidential Election in Ukraine 2014  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b Results of the 2014 presidential elections on ukraine-nachrichten.de ; Retrieved May 29, 2014
    2. ↑ a b First Presidential candidate registered in Ukraine ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kharkov News Agency on March 17, 2014.
    3. ↑ a b c Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Participation in the 2014 presidential election ( Memento of May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved May 29, 2014 (Ukrainian).
    4. ↑ a b c Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - voting results of the 2014 presidential election ( Memento of May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved May 29, 2014 (Ukrainian).
    5. ↑ Poroshenko officially winner of the presidential election on merkur-online.de; accessed on May 27, 2014.
    6. ↑ agreement to resolve the crisis in Ukraine , called away on March 3, 2014 at the Foreign Office (English)
    7. ↑ tagesschau.de:Where is Yanukovych? ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
    8. ↑ tagesschau.de:Parliament deposed Yanukovych ( Memento from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
    9. ↑ Yanukovych deposed by parliament , Stuttgarter Nachrichten of February 22, 2014
    10. ↑ Ukraine is looking for a new order: Klitschko wants to become Ukrainian President n-tv.de , February 25, 2014
    11. ↑ What will happen after the power vacuum in Ukraine? , Die Welt on February 24, 2014
    12. ↑ Kharkiv region governor decides to run for Ukrainian presidency , Kyiv Post on February 24, 2014
    13. ↑ Ex-Governor Of Ukraine's Eastern Kharkiv Region Detained , Radio Free Europe website from March 11, 2014
    14. ↑ Arrest of the ex-governor in Kharkiv: Eastern Ukraine as a source of conflict , Neue Zürcher Zeitung on March 11, 2014
    15. ↑ Dobkin, despite ties to Yanukovych, says he will carry Party of Regions banner in presidential election , Kyiv Post on March 28, 2014
    16. ↑ Ukraine crisis: Viktor Yanukovych party picks 'friend of Putin' in replace him , The Daily Telegraph on March 28, 2014
    17. ↑ Dobkin, despite ties to Yanukovych, says he will carry Party of Regions banner in presidential election , Kyiv Post on March 28, 2014
    18. ↑ Ukraine: Danger of Division , Deutschlandfunk on February 24, 2014
    19. ^ Right-wing extremist Jarosch wants to become president , Der Standard of March 7, 2014
    20. ↑ Am Maidan in Kiev: Briefly: "Meine Ukraine-Mission" ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), on Österreich.at on March 10, 2014
    21. ^ Presidential election in Ukraine: Vitali Klitschko renounces candidacy . Tagesspiegel, March 29, 2014.
    22. ↑ Кандидати на пост Президента України . List of admitted candidates on the website of the State Electoral Commission, accessed on April 16, 2014 (Ukrainian)
    23. ↑ LB.ua: Порошенко: выборы завершились в один тур, и страна имеет нового Президента
    24. ↑ LB.ua: Порошенко: парламентские выборы должны пройти в этом году
    25. ↑ LB.ua: Экзит-полл TNS: Порошенко 57.31%, Тимошенко - 12.39%
    26. ↑ LB.ua: Экзит-полл "Савик Шустер Студии": Порошенко - 55.7%, Тимошенко - 12.9%
    27. ↑ Reinhard Veser: Political borders wandering eastwards - Poroshenko wins all over Ukraine. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. of May 27, 2014, p. 7.
    28. ↑ LB.ua: В Донецкой области голосуют уже в 9 из 22 округов , В Луганской области выборы голосуют ох двр 12
    29. ↑ LB.ua: В Новоайдаре при нападении террористов на участок погиб один человек
    30. ↑ LB.ua: Крымские татары голосуют в Херсонской области
    31. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Share of votes for Poroshenko in the Oblasts ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on May 27, 2014 (Ukrainian)
    32. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Share of votes for Tymoshenko in the Oblasts ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on May 27, 2014 (Ukrainian)
    33. ↑ Official website of the President of Ukraine - The Constitution of Ukraine, Chapter 5 ( Memento of June 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 18, 2014 (Ukrainian).
    34. ↑ Poroshenko strives for a security pact with the EU and the USA on zeit.online ; Retrieved May 29, 2014
    35. ↑ Poroshenko sworn in on the Maidan on nrcu.gov.ua ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on May 30, 2014
    36. ↑ "Petro Poroshenko sworn in as the new president" on time online.de ; Retrieved June 7, 2014
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