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60 percent of ballots counted in Ukraine

29 October 2012 14:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. 60% of the ballots on proportional system in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine were accounted.

APA reports quoting the Ukrainian websites that the ruling Party of Regions, headed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, is leading in the parliamentary elections after 61,07 percent of ballots were counted, the countryâ€™s Central Election Committee said on Monday, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti. Yanukovychâ€™s party has garnered 34,2 percent of the vote and is followed by jailed ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenkoâ€™s Batkivshchyna party with almost 22,49 percent of the vote. The Ukrainian Communist Party comes in the third place with 14,73 percent.
Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), led by the world-famous boxer Vitaly Klitschko, has at the moment over 12,99 percent of the vote, while just over 8,7 percent of the voters cast their ballots in favor of Svoboda nationalist party. The rest of the political parties participating in the election did not pass the five-percent threshold necessary to gain seats in the countryâ€™s legislative body, the Supreme Rada.

The voter turnout has been the lowest since Ukraine gained independence. Just 57,99 percent of electors voted in the elections on October 28, 2012.

Over 5,000 candidates were contesting for 450 seats in the Supreme Rada, with half of the deputies to be elected on party-list vote and the other half in single-mandate constituencies. The candidates of the ruling Party of Regions have great advantages in single-mandate constituencies. The Party of Regions is expected to form a new government with the support of communists.