Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych currently has the highest electoral rating among the possible presidential candidates, as is evident from a public opinion survey conducted in May by the Razumkov Center sociological service jointly with the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.

The respondents were offered two alternative lists of possible candidates who could theoretically run in presidential elections, the first one containing ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the second not, and asked to say for whom they would vote in the first round of presidential elections.

In the first instance, Yanukovych would be supported by 23.4% of those planning to cast their ballots, Tymoshenko by 16.3%, UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko by 15.5%, Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk by 8.4%, Svoboda association leader Oleh Tiahnybok by 6.7%, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko by 6.6%, independent parliamentarian Petro Poroshenko by 3.4%, Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction member Anatoliy Hrytsenko by 1.3%, Party of Regions parliamentarian Sergiy Tigipko by 0.6%, former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko by 0.5%, former President Viktor Yuschenko by 0.4%, independent parliamentarian Volodymyr Lytvyn by 0.3%, and Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz by 0.2%.

If Tymoshenko is barred from running, Yanukovych would garner 23.1% of the vote, Klitschko 17.9%, Yatseniuk 15.9%, Tiahnybok 7.8%, Symonenko 6.4%, Poroshenko 4.5%, Hrytsenko 1.6%, Lutsenko 1.1%, Yuschenko 0.8%, Tigipko 0.6%, Lytvyn 0.3%, and Moroz 0.3%.