23:05 31.10.2012

With 99.12% of party lists vote counted, Regions Party gets 30.08%, Batkivschyna 25.47%, UDAR 13.92%, Communists 13.20%, Svoboda 10.42%

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With 99.12% of party lists vote counted, Regions Party gets 30.08%, Batkivschyna 25.47%, UDAR 13.92%, Communists 13.20%, Svoboda 10.42%

With 99.12% of the ballots counted in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, the Regions Party of Ukraine took 30.08% of the vote on party lists, the Batkivschyna United Opposition 25.47%, the UDAR Party 13.92%, the Communist Party of Ukraine 13.20%, and the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union 10.42%, Ukraine's Central Election Commission has reported.

Thus, with 99.12% of the party list ballots and 98.72% of ballots in single-member constituencies counted, the Party of Regions will take 187 seats in new parliament (73 on party lists and 114 in single-seat constituencies).

The Batkivschyna United Opposition will get 103 seats (61 on party lists, and 42 in single-seat constituencies).

Vitali Klitschko's UDAR Party 40 (34 on party lists and six in single-seat constituencies).

The Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union will take 37 seats (25 on party lists and 12 in single-seat constituencies).

The Communist Party will have 32 seats (all on party lists).

Self-nominees will get 44 seats in single-member constituencies.

The United Center Party will take three seats (all in single-seat constituencies), the People's Party two (all in single-seat constituencies), Oleh Liashko's Party and the Soyuz Party will get one each (both in single-seat constituencies).

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.

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