CEC counts 99.95% of ballots, People’s Front leads

Friday, November 7, 2014 - 11:28 (EET) Section: Latest news

Ukraine’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has currently counted 99.95% of ballots in early elections for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, according to the commission’s website.
The People’s Front holds the lead, with 22.14% of the vote. The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko collected 21.81% of the vote, Samopomich Union – 10.97%, Opposition Bloc – 9.42%, Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party – 7.44%, and Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna Party – 5.67%.
Svoboda does not pass the 5% electoral threshold.