No exit polls were conducted in Donetsk Oblast, according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Oleksiy Matsuka:
Ukraine's Committee of Voters has released the results of an exit poll it commissioned.
According to the poll, current Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko (UDAR) advances to the second round of the city's mayoral election with 40.4 percent of votes, followed by former acting mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko (Fatherland) who received 8.7 percent of the votes.
The top three parties in the Kyiv city council elections are Petro Poroshenko's bloc Solidarity (28.3 percent), Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy's Self Help party (10.3 percent), and Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party (10.1 percent).
In Kharkiv, the incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Kernes (Revival) is projected to win outright in the first round with 59.3 percent of the votes.
In Dnipropetrovsk, two mayoral candidates should advance to the second round -- Borys Filatov (who is associated with local oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyy) with 39.1 percent support and Oleksandr Vilkul, a representative of the Opposition Bloc, who garnered 33.1 percent of the votes.
The polling stations are now closed, the voting is over.
If you can understand Russian, you might enjoy this video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. Shortly after being barred from voting for not having valid ID, Odesan mayoral candidate Darth Vader berates police officers for detaining Chewbacca -- his fellow member of the Interrnet Party of Ukraine -- over a parking offense.
"You have to be gentle with him, he's an animal!" Vader tells them. "How could he have shown you [his passport], he doesn't even have a registration?! He lives in the catacombs!"
The Wookiee also got into trouble for not presenting them with correct identification when asked and for resisting arrest.
According to the latest reports, Chewbacca was eventually released after being fined 170 hryvnia (about $7.50).
Voter turnout for the local elections has remained low due to citizens' lack of understanding of the importance of local authorities, political strategist Serhiy Hayday told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
"Our country remains very centralized," Hayday said. "People are used to everything being decided in one office -- on Bankova [Street] at the Presidential Administration. Some things are decided in the Verkhovna Rada [parliament], so the turnout is higher at these elections."
According to Hayday, people don't understand that 80 percent of their needs are decided upon by local authorities.
Hayday doesn't believe that the turnout will have surged upwards by the time voting ends. The polls are due to close at 8 p.m., which is in less than an hour's time.