The Central Election Commission has processed 80.20% of the protocols of precinct election commissions in the first round of presidential elections held March 31, 2019.
Showman Volodymyr Zelensky remains a frontrunner with 30.40% of votes, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko is a runner-up with 16.03% of votes.
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Leader of the Batkivshchyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko has scored 13.24%, co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life Party Yuriy Boyko gained 11.55%, leader of the Civil Position Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko saw 7.03%, self-nominated Ihor Smeshko had 5.95%, leader of the Radical Party Oleh Liashko received 5.29%, candidate from the Opposition Bloc – the Party of Peace and Development Oleksandr Vilkul got 4.30%, and candidate from the Svoboda Party Ruslan Koshulynsky saw 1.65% of the votes.
Other candidates have garnered under 1% of support.
A total of 14,725,819 votes have been counted so far.
