With 99.42% of ballots counted, People's Front leading in Ukraine polls - CEC

09:21, 30.10.2014 1 min read

A tally of 99.42% of the ballots cast in Ukraine's October 26 parliamentary election gives 22.17% of the vote to the People's Front and 21.82% of the vote to President Petro Poroshenko's Bloc.

The Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) said on its website that the Self-Help Party from western Ukraine is currently third with 10.99% of the vote, the Opposition Bloc has received 9.38%, the Radical Party 7.45%, and Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivschyna 5.68% of the vote.

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