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 votes
57.70%
second round
Petro Symonenko
Communist Party of Ukraine · 5,849,077 votes
38.77%
second round
Oleksandr Moroz
Socialist Party of Ukraine · 2,969,896 votes
11.75%
first round
Nataliya Vitrenko
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine · 2,886,972 votes
11.43%
first round
Yevhen Marchuk
Independent · 2,138,356 votes
8.46%
first round
Yuriy Kostenko
Independent · 570,623 votes
2.26%
first round
Hennadiy Udovenko
Rukh–Reforms and Order · 319,778 votes
1.27%
first round
Vasyl Onopenko
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) · 124,040 votes
0.49%
first round
Oleksandr Rzhavskyy
One Family · 96,515 votes
0.38%
first round
Yuriy Karmazin
Motherland Defenders Party · 90,793 votes
0.36%
first round
Vitaliy Kononov
Party of Greens of Ukraine · 76,832 votes
0.30%
first round
Oleksandr Bazyliuk
Slavic Party · 36,012 votes
0.14%
first round