COUNTRY	Ukraine
ELECTION TYPE	Presidential
DATE	October 31, 2004 (First Round) November 21, 2004 (Second Round)

• The office of the president of the Ukraine.

• Chief of State: President Leonid D. KUCHMA
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Viktor YANUKOVYCH
• Assembly: Ukraine has a unicameral Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) which has 450 seats.

• The president is elected directly by the people for a four-year term.
• Of the members of the Supreme Council, 225 of the seats are allocated via a proportional basis to parties that earn at least 4% of the votes. The remaining 225 seats are secured by popular vote in single mandate districts. All members serve four-year terms.

*Note: As of November 27, the Ukrainian parliament deemed the results as invalid.

• Presidential Candidate: Viktor YANUKOVICH
  Party: Regions of Ukraine
  Total Valid Votes: 15,093,691
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 51.49%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Viktor YUSHCHENKO
  Bloc: Our Ukraine
  Total Valid Votes: 14,222,289
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 48.51%

• Presidential Candidate: Viktor YUSHCHENKO
  Bloc: Our Ukraine*
  Total ValidVotes: 11,125,395
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 41.96%

*Note: Our Ukraine consists of several parties such as the Rukh Party, the Ukranian People’s Party, Reforms and Order, and the Solidarity Party.

• Presidential Candidate: Viktor YANUKOVICH
  Party: Regions of Ukraine
  Total Valid Votes: 10,969,579
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 41.37%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Oleksandr MOROZ
  Party: Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU)
  Total Valid Votes: 1,621,154
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 6.11%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Petro SYMONENKO
  Party: Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU)
  Total Valid Votes: 1,388,045
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 5.24%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Natalya VITRENKO
  Party: Progressive Socialist Party
  Total Valid Votes: 426,897
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 1.61%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Alexander RZHAVSKY
  Party: United Family Party
  Total Valid Votes: 10,664
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 0.04%
  
  
• Presidential Candidate: Alexander BAZILYUK
  Party: Slavic Party
  Total Valid Votes: 8,917
  Percentage of Valid Votes: 0.03%

YUSHCHENKO and YANUKOVICH will advance to the second round of elections on November 21, 2004.

• Presidential elections were last held on October 31 and November 14, 1999. In this election, Leonid D. KUCHMA became president by winning 57.7% of the votes in the second round, while Petro SYMONENKO secured 38.8% of the votes.

• Population: 47,732,079 (July 2004 estimate)
• Number of registered voters: 37,613,022

• Major issues in the elections included corruption, the economy, improvement of the police and judicial system, and lack of free press.
• International analysts expressed concern that the elections were not be free or transparent because the media has devoted more time on the government-backed YANUKOVICH than on the opposition leader YUSHCHENKO.