With 96.42% of vote counted on party lists, Regions Party gets 30.47%, Batkivschyna 25.19%, UDAR 13.77%, Communists 13.37%, Svoboda 10.25%

With 96.42%% of the ballots counted in Ukraine's parliamentary elections by 10:05 p.m. Kyiv time on October 30, 2012, the Regions Party of Ukraine took 30.47% of the vote on party lists, the Batkivschyna United Opposition 25.19%, the UDAR Party 13.77%, the Communist Party of Ukraine 13.37%, and Svoboda 10.25%, Ukraine's Central Election Commission reported on Tuesday evening.

The counting of votes in single-seat constituencies was still under way in Crimea (99.84% of the total ballots cast), Vinnytia region (95.98%), Volyn region (99.02%), Zhytomyr region (95.08%), Zakarpattia (99.87%), Ivano-Frankivsk region (94.59%), Kyiv region (75.30%), Kirovohrad region (87.29%), Luhansk region (95.17%), Lviv region (95.91%), Odesa region (98.50%), Rivne region (99.70%), Ternopil region (98.39%), Kherson region (97.95%), Khmelnytsky region (96.02%), Cherkasy region (89.12%), Chernivtsi region (99.64%), Chernihiv region (99.36%), the city of Kyiv (89.56%).

All ballots cast in Dnipropetrovsk region, Donetsk region, Zaporizhia region, Mykolaiv region, Poltava region, Sumy region, Kharkiv region, and in the city of Sevastopol had been processed by that time.

The October 28, 2012, election was conducted under a mixed system, with 225 MPs elected on party lists and 225 in single-seat constituencies (the election in 2007 was held under a proportional system). Voter turnout this year was 57.99%.

Under the Law on the Election of People's Deputies of Ukraine, the deadline for the official publication of the parliamentary election results in the Holos Ukrainy and Uriadovy Kurier newspapers is set until November 17, 2012, inclusively.