Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Samopomich, Opposition Bloc, Radical Party, Svoboda Batkivschyna to get seats in Rada - National Exit Poll
Seven parties will get seats in the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation, according to the data of the Rada 2014 National Exit Poll as of 1800.
The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko gained 23% of the vote, the People's Front 21.3%, the Samopomich Union 13.2%, the Opposition Bloc 7.6%, the Radical Party 6.4%, the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union 6.3%, and the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union 5.6%, the preliminary results of the exit poll say.
Anatoliy Hrytsenko's Civil Position with 3.5% of the vote, the Communist Party of Ukraine with 2.9%, Sergiy Tigipko's Strong Ukraine with 2.6%, the Right Sector with 2.4%, and Zastup with 1.8% failed to overcome the 5% election threshold.
Thus, on election lists, the Poroshenko Bloc is likely to get 62 seats, the People's Front 57, Samopomich 36, the Opposition Bloc 21, the Radical Party and Svoboda 17 seats each and Batkivschyna 15 seats in the new parliament.
The national exit poll 2014 was conducted by a consortium consisting of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, and the Razumkov Centre for Economic and Political Studies.
A total of 16,643 voters were interviewed at 400 polling stations.
