The second round of the election vote in Ukraine is scheduled for April 21 / Photo from UNIAN
The CEC has already counted 18,290,706 votes.
Ukrainian presidential candidate, showman Volodymyr Zelensky has almost twice the votes cast for his nearest competitor, incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, 30.23% vs. 15.92%, respectively, after the Central Election Commission (CEC) has processed 97.10% of voting protocols of Ukraine's March 31 presidential election.
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Some 13.40% voted for Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life Party Yuriy Boyko had 11.63% of the vote. Some 6.93% of voters supported leader of the Civil Position Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko, while 6.03% voted for ex-chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Ihor Smeshko. Leader of the Radical Party Oleh Liashko scored 5.48%, candidate from the Opposition Bloc – Party of Peace and Development Oleksandr Vilkul got 4.17%, and candidate from the Svoboda Party Ruslan Koshulynsky had 1.63%.
All other candidates received less than 1% of the vote.
Some 1.18% of ballots were announced to be void.
The CEC has already counted 18,290,706 votes.
The first two candidates with the largest number of votes will face each other in a run-off. The second round of the election vote in Ukraine is scheduled for April 21.