With 98.61% of vote counted, Regions Party gets 30.14%, Batkivschyna 25.42%, UDAR 13.9%, Communists 13.22%, Svoboda 10.4%

16:48, 31.10.2012 1 min read

With 98.61% of the party list ballots counted in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, the Regions Party of Ukraine took 30.14% of the vote, the Batkivschyna United Opposition 25.42%, the UDAR Party 13.9%, the Communist Party of Ukraine 13.22%, and the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union 10.4%, Ukraine's Central Election Commission has reported.

The October 28, 2012 election was conducted under a mixed system, with 225 MPs elected on a party list basis and 225 in single-seat constituencies. Parliamentary candidates run in single-seat constituencies either from parties or through self-nomination. The election threshold for parties on party lists in these elections is 5%.