09:51 16.11.2015

SUMMARY: Klitschko in the lead of Kyiv mayoral election, Filatov likely to become Dnipropetrovsk mayor – exit polls

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SUMMARY: Klitschko in the lead of Kyiv mayoral election, Filatov likely to become Dnipropetrovsk mayor – exit polls

The number of regional centers and major cities in Ukraine on November 15 held the second round of mayoral elections. Kyiv's incumbent mayor Vitali Klitschko has been elected for the second term.

Klitschko scored 66.7% of the vote, his closest rival MP Boryslav Bereza, the leader of the Rishuchi Hromadiany (Resolute Citizens) Party, came second with 33.29%, according to data from 192 polling stations in Kyiv (17.6% of the protocols provided by Kyiv district election commissions), published by the Kyiv City Election Commission.

The results of an exit poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) at the request of the television news service of Channel 1+1 are the following: Klitschko is in the lead with 65% of the vote, while Bereza has got 35%.

The western city of Lviv has also elected its incumbent mayor Andriy Sadovy from the Samopomich Party for another term. With 98% of the protocols processed, he has got 61.06% of the vote; his closest rival from the Svoboda Party Ruslan Koshulynsky has scored 36.9% of votes. The KIIS exit poll says that Sadovy received 61.4% of votes, Koshulynsky ranks second with 38.6%.

In Dnipropetrovsk, UKROP Party member Borys Filatov is winning the mayoral election with 53.76%, his opponent, a representative of the Opposition Bloc Oleksandr Vilkul ranks second with 46.24%, according to OPORA civil network NGO's observers, deployed at all polling stations.

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