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Turnout | 62.88% (first round) 3.00pp 61.42% (second round) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced that Zelenskyy won the second round with 73.22% of the total vote[1] (or 74.96% of the valid vote). The elections were recognized as free and fair by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.[2]
Poroshenko became the third incumbent Ukrainian president to directly lose reelection, after Viktor Yushchenko lost reelection in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election and Leonid Kravchuk in the 1994 Ukrainian presidential election. Zelenskyy was sworn in as the sixth President of Ukraine in May 2019.