Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991,[1] the first direct presidential elections in the country's history. Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and de facto acting president, ran as an independent candidate and was elected with 61.6% of the vote.[2]
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Turnout | 84.18% | ||||||||||||||||
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An independence referendum held on the same day saw 92 percent of voters voting to secede from the Soviet Union.[2] All six presidential candidates supported independence and had campaigned for a "yes" vote in the referendum.
Results
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Leonid Kravchuk | Independent | 19,643,481 | 61.59 | |
Viacheslav Chornovil | People's Movement of Ukraine | 7,420,727 | 23.27 | |
Levko Lukianenko | Ukrainian Republican Party | 1,432,556 | 4.49 | |
Volodymyr Hrynyov | Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine | 1,329,758 | 4.17 | |
Ihor Yukhnovskyi | Independent | 554,719 | 1.74 | |
Leopold Taburyanskyi | People's Party of Ukraine | 182,713 | 0.57 | |
Against all and invalid votes | 1,327,788 | 4.16 | ||
Total | 31,891,742 | 100.00 | ||
Total votes | 31,891,742 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 37,885,555 | 84.18 | ||
Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3] |
By region
References
External links
- Chrystyna Lalpychak. INDEPENDENCE Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Ukrainian Weekly. December 8, 1991
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