Ukrainian presidential election, 1999

Ukrainian presidential election, 1999

1994 ← November 14, 1999 → 2004

Nominee Leonid Kuchma Petro Symonenko Party Independent Communist Party of Ukraine Popular vote 15,870,722 10,665,420 Percentage 56.25% 37.80%

President before election Leonid Kuchma Nonpartisan Elected President Leonid Kuchma Nonpartisan

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The Ukrainian presidential election, 1999 was a presidential election held in 1999 in Ukraine.

There were 15 candidates originally with two withdrawing prior to election (Volodymyr Oliynyk and Oleksandr Tkachenko).

At the time of election the population in Ukraine was 50,105,600 with 34,017,400 living in cities. The most districts contained the Donetsk Oblast (23) as the most populous one, the least electoral districts among oblasts were in the Chernivtsi Oblast, only 4. The city of Kiev had 12 elctoral districts and Sevastopol - 2. There also was a special out-of-country district available for voters who at the moment of elections were not available to vote in Ukraine.

The first round of the elections took place on October 30, 1999. During the round the most oblasts and the out-of-country district were won by Leonid Kuchma. In seven oblasts the top candidate was Petro Symonenko mostly in the east. Oleksandr Moroz managed to become the leader in the more agrarian oriented Poltava and Vinnytsia Oblasts. Nataliya Vitrenko took the peak of the candidate list in the Sumy Oblast.

The second round of the elections took place on November 14, 1999, in which the acting President Leonid Kuchma kept the presidential post from the Communist party leader Petro Symonenko.

Results

Summary of 1999 Ukraine presidential election results

Candidates — Nominating parties	Votes (1st round)	%	Votes (2nd round)	%
Leonid Kuchma — Independent	9,598,672	36.49	15,870,722	56.25
Petro Symonenko — KPU	5,849,077	22.24	10,665,420	37.80
Oleksandr Moroz — SPU	2,969,896	11.29
Nataliya Vitrenko — PSPU	2,886,972	10.97
Yevhen Marchuk — Yevhen Marchuk Bloc	2,138,356	8.13
Yuriy Kostenko — Independent	570,623	2.17
Hennadiy Udovenko — NRU(Rukh)	319,778	1.22
Vasyl Onopenko — SDPU	124,040	0.47
Oleksandr Rzhavskyy — One Kinship	96,515	0.37
Yuriy Karmazin — Motherland Defenders Party	90,793	0.35
Vitaliy Kononov — Green Party	76,832	0.29
Oleksandr Bazyliuk — Slav Party	36,012	0.14
Mykola Haber — Patriotic Party of Ukraine	31,829	0.12
Ivan Bilas — CUN	disquilified	0
Against all	477,019	1.81	970,181	3.44
Total	25,266,414	100	27,506,323	100

References

• Center on Democratic Performance
• The Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
• Official website of 1999 elections at Central Election Committee website