1991 Ukrainian presidential election

1991 Ukrainian presidential election
1 December 1991 1994 →
Turnout84.18%
 
Nominee Leonid Kravchuk Viacheslav Chornovil
Party Independent Rukh
Popular vote 19,643,481 7,420,727
Percentage 61.59% 23.27%
Results by oblast
President before election

Leonid Kravchuk (acting)
Independent

Elected President

Leonid Kravchuk
Independent

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

CandidatePartyVotes%
Leonid KravchukIndependent19,643,48161.59
Viacheslav ChornovilPeople's Movement of Ukraine7,420,72723.27
Levko LukianenkoUkrainian Republican Party1,432,5564.49
Volodymyr HrynyovParty of Democratic Revival of Ukraine1,329,7584.17
Ihor YukhnovskyiIndependent554,7191.74
Leopold TaburyanskyiPeople's Party of Ukraine182,7130.57
Against all and invalid votes1,327,7884.16
Total31,891,742100.00
Total votes31,891,742–
Registered voters/turnout37,885,55584.18
Source: Nohlen & Stöver[3]

By region

Region Winner Runner-up Third
Candidate % Candidate % Candidate %
Crimean ASSR Leonid Kravchuk 56.6 Volodymyr Hrynyov 9.4 Viacheslav Chornovil 8.0
Vinnytsia Leonid Kravchuk 72.3 Viacheslav Chornovil 18.2 Levko Lukianenko 3.3
Volyn Leonid Kravchuk 51.7 Viacheslav Chornovil 31.4 Levko Lukianenko 8.9
Dnipropetrovsk Leonid Kravchuk 69.7 Viacheslav Chornovil 18.2 Volodymyr Hrynyov 3.2
Donetsk Leonid Kravchuk 71.5 Volodymyr Hrynyov 11.0 Viacheslav Chornovil 9.6
Zhytomyr Leonid Kravchuk 77.6 Viacheslav Chornovil 14.0 Levko Lukianenko 3.3
Zakarpattia Leonid Kravchuk 58.0 Viacheslav Chornovil 27.6 Levko Lukianenko 5.0
Zaporizhzhia Leonid Kravchuk 74.7 Viacheslav Chornovil 13.0 Volodymyr Hrynyov 3.9
Ivano-Frankivsk Viacheslav Chornovil 67.1 Leonid Kravchuk 13.7 Levko Lukianenko 11.8
Kyiv Leonid Kravchuk 66.0 Viacheslav Chornovil 21.2 Levko Lukianenko 5.6
Kirovohrad Leonid Kravchuk 74.8 Viacheslav Chornovil 15.6 Levko Lukianenko 3.5
Luhansk Leonid Kravchuk 76.2 Viacheslav Chornovil 9.9 Volodymyr Hrynyov 6.8
Lviv Viacheslav Chornovil 75.9 Leonid Kravchuk 11.5 Levko Lukianenko 4.7
Mykolaiv Leonid Kravchuk 72.3 Viacheslav Chornovil 15.1 Volodymyr Hrynyov 5.6
Odesa Leonid Kravchuk 70.7 Viacheslav Chornovil 12.8 Volodymyr Hrynyov 8.4
Poltava Leonid Kravchuk 75.1 Viacheslav Chornovil 13.6 Levko Lukianenko 4.2
Rivne Leonid Kravchuk 53.1 Viacheslav Chornovil 25.7 Levko Lukianenko 13.4
Sumy Leonid Kravchuk 72.4 Viacheslav Chornovil 14.7 Levko Lukianenko 3.8
Ternopil Viacheslav Chornovil 57.5 Levko Lukianenko 19.6 Leonid Kravchuk 16.8
Kharkiv Leonid Kravchuk 60.9 Viacheslav Chornovil 19.7 Volodymyr Hrynyov 10.9
Kherson Leonid Kravchuk 70.2 Viacheslav Chornovil 18.1 Volodymyr Hrynyov 3.3
Khmelnytskyi Leonid Kravchuk 75.5 Viacheslav Chornovil 15.4 Levko Lukianenko 3.3
Cherkasy Leonid Kravchuk 67.1 Viacheslav Chornovil 25.0 Levko Lukianenko 2.0
Chernivtsi Leonid Kravchuk 43.6 Viacheslav Chornovil 42.7 Levko Lukianenko 4.4
Chernihiv Leonid Kravchuk 74.2 Viacheslav Chornovil 12.3 Levko Lukianenko 6.7
Kyiv City Leonid Kravchuk 56.1 Viacheslav Chornovil 26.7 Levko Lukianenko 6.4
Sevastopol Leonid Kravchuk 54.7 Viacheslav Chornovil 10.9 Volodymyr Hrynyov 8.4
Total Leonid Kravchuk 61.6 Viacheslav Chornovil 23.3 Levko Lukianenko 4.5
Source: Electoral Geography

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN 9783832956097
  2. ^ a b Independence - over 90% vote yes in referendum; Kravchuk elected president of Ukraine Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Ukrainian Weekly, 8 December 1991
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1993

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