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1991 Ukrainian presidential election Turnout 84.18%
Results by oblast
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]
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 %
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
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