TNS Ukraine and Socis exit poll results on majoritarian candidates:
Party of Regions 27.79%
Independent candidates - 19.29%
All Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" - 18.32%
UDAR - 10.42%
Communist Party - 8.58%
Svoboda - 5.80%
Other parties - 9.81%
21:3228.10.2012
We missed this one before. A woman appears to be stuffing several ballots at a ballot box in Dniepropetrovsk.
21:2428.10.2012
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leader of the United Opposition, and Oleksandr Turchynov, deputy leader of All Ukrainian Union "Fatherland," speaking at a news conference at the opposition campaign headquarters in Kyiv about the parliamentary election in Ukraine.
Arseny Yatsenyuk (left), heads a union of opposition parties, and his wife Theresa leave voting booths at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Kiev.
"After the announcement of the exit poll it is absolutely clear that the Ukrainian people support the opposition and not the authorities. It is very important now that after the polls are closed the votes be counted, there should be no violations, there should be no falsifications. And the most important thing is not the party list, but also the vote count in every single-mandate constituency."
21:0828.10.2012
Vladimir Yelchenko
Vladimir Yelchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, quoted (RU) as saying that only 741 out of 42,000 officially-registered Ukrainians in Russia voted. “The weather conditions played their part -- it was raining and snowing. Besides, one couldn’t include him or herself on the list on the day of elections. People didn’t register on time or were misdirected.”
Via Ukraine’s Central Election Commission -- Based on 35 out of 225 voting constituencies, preliminary results put turnout at 56.76%. Turnout was heaviest in Lviv (68.36%), Kyiv (68.95), and Lugansk (57.68). The lowest (so far) turnout was in Kherson (47.53) and Crimea (47.92).
19:4528.10.2012
Viktor Yanukovich's term as President runs out in 2015 but there is already talk of early presidential elections. Oleg Turchinov from All Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" speaking at a press conference a few minutes ago.
“Now the most important question is the early presidential election,” Turchinov said.
19:3728.10.2012
All the voting cabins are pretty much the same in Yalta, so the voting is not very secret.
Radio Svoboda correspondent Halyna Tereshchuk reports:
“A wedding was taking place in one of the buildings with a voting station. The members of the election commission collected money to buy the newlyweds a carpet.”
19:2528.10.2012
Viktor Taran, analyst and co-founder of the NGO Chesno to Radio Svoboda (watch live in Ukrainian):
"The number of violations among majoritarian candidates is several times bigger, than the ones committed by the candidates from the party lists. The most widespread violation is buying votes and using administrative resources."
