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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 for a five-year term with 62% of the vote.
The Mariinskyi Palace, official residence of the president of Ukraine, in July 2018. The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [ 1 ] Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991 , 1994 , 1999 , 2004 , 2010 , 2014 and 2019 .
English: 1991 Ukrainian Presidential Election Map. This map shows the winning vote share by oblast, autonomous republic, and city with special status. This map shows the winning vote share by oblast, autonomous republic, and city with special status.
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[41] [42] The most popular presidential elections were the first one in 1991 where nearly 30.6 million people voted and in the 2004 election which gathered some 28 million. There were only three presidential candidates who have gathered over 10 million votes: Leonid Kravchuk (1991 - 19.6, 1994 - 10.0), Viktor Yushchenko (2004 - 11.1), and ...
The first presidential election in Ukraine was held on 1 December 1991. On 22 August 1992, the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile Mykolva Plaviuk transferred his authorities to the first post-Soviet president Leonid Kravchuk.
Leonid Kravchuk (left), first President of Ukraine, along with other heads of states of the newly formed Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991. So far, seven presidential elections have been conducted. The first election in 1991 was held at the same time as Ukrainians voted to support the Declaration of Independence in the independence ...