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1991 Ukrainian presidential election information


1991 Ukrainian presidential election

1 December 1991 1994 →
Turnout84.18%
 
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.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN 9783832956097
  2. ^ a b 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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