Elections in Ukraine - Voter Turnout

Voter Turnout

From 1994 till 2007 the average voter turnout for the Verkhovna Rada elections had been 68.13% The total voter turnout in the last (2012) parliamentary elections was the lowest ever with 57.99%; The lowest turnout in these elections was in Crimea (with 49.46%), the highest in Lviv Oblast (67.13%). The voting turnout for Presidential elections is always higher than for Verkhovna Rada elections with an average voter turnout of 72% since 2004 (67.95% in the last (2010) Presidential election).

The most popular presidential elections were the first one in 1991 where voted nearly 30.6 millions people and in 2004 election which gathered some 28 millions. There were only three presidential candidates who have gathered over 10 millions votes: Leonid Kravchuk (1991 - 19.6, 1994 - 10.0), Viktor Yushchenko (2004 - 11.1), and Viktor Yanukovych (2004 - 11.0). The 10 million voters mark was almost reached by Leonid Kuchma in 1999, but he only managed to gain trust of 9.6 millions. To this day Kravchuk is the only presidential candidate who managed to win the elections after the first round obtaining over 50% of votes in 1991. Most often participant of presidential elections is Oleksandr Moroz who took part in every presidential election since 1994 when he gained the biggest support of some 3.5 millions, while in 2010 for him voted less than .1 million. Viktor Yanukiovych became the strongest runner-up in the history of presidential elections, while Leonid Kuchma - the only runner-up of the first round who managed to pull a win in the second one. Thus far the top two presidential candidates always would get support of over 5 million voters each.