2014 Ukrainian Presidential Election
The post-Maidan election25 May 2014 · Elections at war
Snap presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 25 May 2014 and resulted in Petro Poroshenko being elected President of Ukraine. Originally scheduled to take place on 29 March 2015, the date was brought forward following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
Held in wartime. This election took place while the country was engaged in Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present). Conflicts →
Held with Crimea annexed and fighting under way in the Donbas: voting was impossible in the occupied territories, disenfranchising several million citizens through no fault of the election itself.
President before
Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Batkivshchyna
Elected President
Petro Poroshenko
Independent
Winning share
55.5%
Turnout
59.9%
The result
Petro Poroshenko
Independent (UDAR) · 9,857,308 votes
55.46%
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Yulia Tymoshenko
Batkivshchyna · 2,310,050 votes
13.00%
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Oleh Liashko
Radical Party · 1,500,377 votes
8.44%
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Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Civil Position · 989,029 votes
5.56%
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Serhiy Tihipko
Independent (Strong Ukraine) · 943,430 votes
5.31%
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Mykhailo Dobkin
Party of Regions · 546,138 votes
3.07%
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Vadim Rabinovich
Independent · 406,301 votes
2.29%
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Olha Bohomolets
Independent · 345,384 votes
1.94%
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Petro Symonenko
Communist Party of Ukraine · 272,723 votes
1.53%
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Oleh Tyahnybok
Svoboda · 210,476 votes
1.18%
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Dmytro Yarosh
Right Sector · 127,772 votes
0.72%
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Andriy Hrynenko
Independent · 73,277 votes
0.41%
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