Six parties enter the Ukrainian parliament with 85.13 percent of votes counted in last Sunday's early elections for the Verkhovna Rada, according to the Web site of the Central Election Commission.
The People’s Front Party still holds the lead with 22.04 percent of the vote, being slightly ahead of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, which collected 21.68 percent of the vote. Samopomich Union garnered 10.93 percent of the vote, the Opposition Bloc – 9.47 percent, the Radical Party – 7.47 percent and Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union – 5.7 percent.
The other parties that participated in the elections do not overcome the 5 percent electoral threshold needed to win parliamentary seats. However, Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union has come very close to the electoral threshold with 4.68 percent of the vote.
The Communist Party of Ukraine collected 3.9 percent of the vote, Sergiy Tigipko’s Strong Ukraine – 3.18 percent, Anatoliy Hrytsenko’s Civil Position – 3.09 percent, Zastup All-Ukrainian Agrarian Union – 2.74 percent, and the Right Sector Party – 1.81 percent. All other parties took less than 1 percent of the vote each.
