1999 Ukrainian Presidential Election
14 November 1999 (second round) · The founding elections · two-round vote
Kuchma, who had been elected on a leftist programme in 1994 before subsequently abandoning it for economic liberalisation, was extremely unpopular prior to the election, with a reputation for patronage and ties to large corporations and organised crime.
President before
Leonid Kuchma
Independent
President (re-elected)
Leonid Kuchma
Independent
Winning share
57.7%
second round
Turnout
70.2%
second round 74.9%
The result
| Leonid Kuchma | Independent | 9,598,672 | 37.99% | 15,870,722 | 57.70% |
| Petro Symonenko | Communist Party of Ukraine | 5,849,077 | 23.15% | 10,665,420 | 38.77% |
| Oleksandr Moroz | Socialist Party of Ukraine | 2,969,896 | 11.75% | — | — |
| Nataliya Vitrenko | Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine | 2,886,972 | 11.43% | — | — |
| Yevhen Marchuk | Independent | 2,138,356 | 8.46% | — | — |
| Yuriy Kostenko | Independent | 570,623 | 2.26% | — | — |
| Hennadiy Udovenko | Rukh–Reforms and Order | 319,778 | 1.27% | — | — |
| Vasyl Onopenko | Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) | 124,040 | 0.49% | — | — |
| Oleksandr Rzhavskyy | One Family | 96,515 | 0.38% | — | — |
| Yuriy Karmazin | Motherland Defenders Party | 90,793 | 0.36% | — | — |
| Vitaliy Kononov | Party of Greens of Ukraine | 76,832 | 0.30% | — | — |
| Oleksandr Bazyliuk | Slavic Party | 36,012 | 0.14% | — | — |
| Mykola Haber | Patriotic Party of Ukraine | 31,829 | 0.13% | — | — |