1991 Ukrainian presidential election
1 December 1991
Turnout84.2%
 
Nominee Leonid Kravchuk Viacheslav Chornovil
Party Independent Rukh
Popular vote 19,643,481 7,420,727
Percentage 61.59% 23.27%
Results by oblast
President before election

Leonid Kravchuk (acting)
Independent

 Elected President

Leonid Kravchuk
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991,[1] the first direct presidential elections in the country's history. Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and de facto acting president, ran as an independent candidate and was elected with 61.6% of the vote.[2]

An independence referendum held on the same day saw 92 percent of voters voting to secede from the Soviet Union.[2] All six presidential candidates supported independence and had campaigned for a "yes" vote in the referendum.

Results

Candidate Party Votes %
Leonid KravchukIndependent19,643,48161.6
Viacheslav ChornovilPeople's Movement of Ukraine7,420,72723.3
Levko LukianenkoUkrainian Republican Party1,432,5564.5
Volodymyr HrynyovParty of Democratic Revival of Ukraine1,329,7584.2
Ihor YukhnovskyiIndependent554,7191.7
Leopold TaburyanskyiPeople's Party of Ukraine182,7130.6
Against all
Invalid/blank votes1,327,7884.2
Total31,891,742100
Registered voters/turnout37,885,55584.2
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By region

RegionWinnerRunner UpThird
Crimean ASSRLeonid Kravchuk (56.6)Volodymyr Hrynyov (9.4)Viacheslav Chornovil (8.0)
VinnytsiaLeonid Kravchuk (72.3)Viacheslav Chornovil (18.2)Levko Lukianenko (3.3)
VolynLeonid Kravchuk (51.7)Viacheslav Chornovil (31.4)Levko Lukianenko (8.9)
DnipropetrovskLeonid Kravchuk (69.7)Viacheslav Chornovil (18.2)Volodymyr Hrynyov (3.2)
DonetskLeonid Kravchuk (71.5)Volodymyr Hrynyov (11.0)Viacheslav Chornovil (9.6)
ZhytomyrLeonid Kravchuk (77.6)Viacheslav Chornovil (14.0)Levko Lukianenko (3.3)
ZakarpattiaLeonid Kravchuk (58.0)Viacheslav Chornovil (27.6)Levko Lukianenko (5.0)
ZaporizhzhiaLeonid Kravchuk (74.7)Viacheslav Chornovil (13.0)Volodymyr Hrynyov (3.9)
Ivano-FrankivskViacheslav Chornovil (67.1)Leonid Kravchuk (13.7)Levko Lukianenko (11.8)
KyivLeonid Kravchuk (66.0)Viacheslav Chornovil (21.2)Levko Lukianenko (5.6)
KirovohradLeonid Kravchuk (74.8)Viacheslav Chornovil (15.6)Levko Lukianenko (3.5)
LuhanskLeonid Kravchuk (76.2)Viacheslav Chornovil (9.9)Volodymyr Hrynyov (6.8)
LvivViacheslav Chornovil (75.9)Leonid Kravchuk (11.5)Levko Lukianenko (4.7)
MykolaivLeonid Kravchuk (72.3)Viacheslav Chornovil (15.1)Volodymyr Hrynyov (5.6)
OdesaLeonid Kravchuk (70.7)Viacheslav Chornovil (12.8)Volodymyr Hrynyov (8.4)
PoltavaLeonid Kravchuk (75.1)Viacheslav Chornovil (13.6)Levko Lukianenko (4.2)
RivneLeonid Kravchuk (53.1)Viacheslav Chornovil (25.7)Levko Lukianenko (13.4)
SumyLeonid Kravchuk (72.4)Viacheslav Chornovil (14.7)Levko Lukianenko (3.8)
TernopilViacheslav Chornovil (57.5)Levko Lukianenko (19.6)Leonid Kravchuk (16.8)
KharkivLeonid Kravchuk (60.9)Viacheslav Chornovil (19.7)Volodymyr Hrynyov (10.9)
KhersonLeonid Kravchuk (70.2)Viacheslav Chornovil (18.1)Volodymyr Hrynyov (3.3)
KhmelnytskyiLeonid Kravchuk (75.5)Viacheslav Chornovil (15.4)Levko Lukianenko (3.3)
CherkasyLeonid Kravchuk (67.1)Viacheslav Chornovil (25.0)Levko Lukianenko (2.0)
ChernivtsiLeonid Kravchuk (43.6)Viacheslav Chornovil (42.7)Levko Lukianenko (4.4)
ChernihivLeonid Kravchuk (74.2)Viacheslav Chornovil (12.3)Levko Lukianenko (6.7)
Kyiv CityLeonid Kravchuk (56.1)Viacheslav Chornovil (26.7)Levko Lukianenko (6.4)
SevastopolLeonid Kravchuk (54.7)Viacheslav Chornovil (10.9)Volodymyr Hrynyov (8.4)
TotalLeonid Kravchuk (61.6)Viacheslav Chornovil (23.3)Levko Lukianenko (4.5)
Source: Electoral Geography

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN 9783832956097
  2. 1 2 Independence - over 90% vote yes in referendum; Kravchuk elected president of Ukraine Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Ukrainian Weekly, 8 December 1991
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