Incumbent Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko appears to have got re-elected in the runoff vote on Nov. 15 as polling booths re-opened to select city managers in 29 Ukrainian municipalities across the country.
He received 65 percent of the vote, according to preliminary
findings from an exit poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of
Sociology, and which was commissioned by billionaire Igor Kolomoisky’s 1+1
television channel.
Boryslav Bereza of the Decisive Citizens party garnered 35
percent of the vote in Ukraine’s capital of nearly 3 million people.
The mayor of the nation’s fourth largest city in
Dnipropetrovsk appears to be Borys Filatov with 62 percent, overcoming former
governor of the region Oleksandr Vilkul of the Opposition Bloc, a pro-Russian
party.
In Lviv, with more than 800,000 residents, Andriy Sadovy of the
Samopomich Party comfortably got re-elected, surpassing Ruslan Koshulynsky of
the nationalistic Svoboda Party with 61 percent of the electorate’s votes,
compared to 39 percent.
Runoff mayoral elections were held in cities with
populations of more than 90,000 people where no candidate received more than
half of the cast ballots on Oct. 25 during nation elections to regional, local
and village councils, as well as for the heads of municipalities and villages.
Altogether, KIIS conducted exit polls in seven cities using the “secret ballot” method during which voters are asked to privately complete a form resembling a ballot .
The sample error for Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhya,
Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv is 3.5 percent; while for Lutsk and Pavlohrad it’s 5.1
percent.
Preliminary exit poll results of runoff mayoral elections
|
Candidate, party affiliation |
Preliminary result, % |
|
|
Kyiv |
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Vitali Klitschko |
65 |
|
|
Boryslav Bereza |
35 |
|
|
Dnipropetrovsk |
||
|
Oleksandr Vilkul (Opposition Bloc) |
38 |
|
|
Borys Filatov (Ukrop Party) |
62 |
|
|
Lviv |
||
|
Andriy Sadoviy (Samopomoch) |
61.4 |
|
|
Ruslan Koshulynsky (Svoboda) |
38.6 |
|
|
Zaporizhya |
||
|
Volodymyr Buryak (independent) |
55.9 |
|
|
Mykola Frolov (Petro Poroshenko’s Solidarity Party) |
44.1 |
|
|
Ivano-Frankivsk |
||
|
Ruslan Martsinkiv (Svoboda) |
56.7 |
|
|
Ihor Nasalyk (Petro Poroshenko’s Solidarity Party) |
43.3 |
|
|
Lutsk |
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|
Mykola Romaniuk (Petro Poroshenko’s Solidarity Party) |
56.5 |
|
|
Oleksandr Tovsteniuk (Ukrop Party) |
43.5 |
|
|
Pavlohrad |
||
|
Anatoliy Vershyna (Opposition Bloc) |
55.5 |
|
|
Yevhen Tieriekhov (Ukrop) |
44.5 |
Exit poll results are preliminary and based on “secret
ballot” survey of voters leaving elections stations, conducted jointly by the
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and 1+1 television channel.
Source: Kyiv
International Institute of Sociology
Kyiv Post editor Mark
Rachkevych can be reached at [email protected]
