With 90% of ballots counted, People's Front still leading in Ukraine polls – CEC

14:50, 28.10.2014 1 min read

A tally of 90.02% of ballots cast in Ukraine's October 26 parliamentary election gives 22.16% of the vote to the People's Front and 21.77% of the vote to Petro Poroshenko's Bloc, according to the Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC).

The Samopomich movement from western Ukraine has received 10.96% of the vote, the Opposition Bloc 9.35%, the Radical Party 7.46%, and Batkivschyna 5.7%, it said.

The other political forces running in the elections have been unable to gain 5% of the vote needed to win parliamentary seats. However, Svoboda (Freedom) has come very close to the electoral threshold with 4.71% of the vote.