21 April 2019 (second round) · Elections at war · two-round vote
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.
Held in wartime. This election took place while the country was engaged in Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present). Conflicts →
Free and fair, but held without Crimea and the occupied Donbas, whose residents could not vote.
President before
Petro Poroshenko
BPP
Elected President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Servant of the People
Winning share
75.0%
second round
Turnout
62.9%
second round 61.4%
The result
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Servant of the People · 5,714,034 votes
74.96%
second round
Petro Poroshenko
Independent (BPP) · 3,014,609 votes
25.04%
second round
Yulia Tymoshenko
Batkivshchyna · 2,532,452 votes
13.56%
first round
Yuriy Boyko
Independent (Opposition Platform — For Life) · 2,206,216 votes
11.82%
first round
Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Civil Position · 1,306,450 votes
7.00%
first round
Ihor Smeshko
Independent · 1,141,332 votes
6.11%
first round
Oleh Liashko
Radical Party of Oleh Liashko · 1,036,003 votes
5.55%
first round
Oleksandr Vilkul
Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development · 784,274 votes