Vote count
Announcements - prelim. announcement from CEC may be made on Oct. 3rd.
CEC election results website in english
At 99.95% tabulated
Party of Regions 34.35%
BYuT - Tymoshenko 30.73%
OU-PSD - Yushchenko 14.16%
Communist Party 5.39%
Lytvyn Bloc 3.96%
Socialist Party 2.86%
All other parties 4.10%
Vote against all 2.73%
Total of all votes 98.28%
2006 March Parliamentary results -
Party of Regions 32.14%, BYuT 22.9%, OU 13.95%, Socialist 5.69%, Communist 3.66%. All other votes 20.08% (inc. against all 1.77%) with voter turnout 68% and total vote 24,409,135.
My shock is how low the 'against all' vote is, as I had thought it would be closer to 6%.Which is really good news as people did vote for a party and were much more 'engaged' in the elections than was reported.
Update - report from BYuT that attempts are being to falsify the vote count in Donetsk, Luhansk, Odessa and Crimea.
Simferopol top prize winner in the slowness of returns. Only 19.49% of the votes counted at this time encompasssing 159 polling sites. (10 pm. 10/01) Journalists from UNIAN who telephoned were informed that counting was slow based on the number of errors in documentation form the election committees.
In Kharkiv city and oblast PoR ratings dropped from the last election according to analyst. Votes were picked up by BYuT.
IIU
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There are people who still carry icons of Stalin around their necks. You've seen them.
Why on earth would 34% of the people vote for proven crooks, thugs and mafia?
I think it's a little late to switch votes from PoR to Moroz without being too obvious about it...
dlw
In the rest of Donetsk region the Socialist share of the vote was fairly insignificant both in 2006 and 2007.
Reach your own conclusions.
By the way, fifteen of Donetsk's seventeen districts (including Districts 48, 49, 54 and 55) are already done counting, and in the two remaining districts over 90% of the votes have been tallied, with the Socialists getting about one percent in both cases.
http://unian.net/eng/news/news-215161.html
I ask again - why would 34% of Ukrainians vote for the PoR mafia?
Here's why:
1. The economy -- it has been booming under Yanu.
2. The regional divide: The east, which has produced most of the country's wealth, doesn't want to be ruled by the poorer west.
3. And just how big is the intregity gap? I mean, didn't Yulia work for that guy who absconded with the country's wealth and didn't she get rich somehow and doesn't anyone have ANY doubts about how she got her money? and what about Yushchenko's bookeeping methods with the IMF money, as recounted in Andrew Wilson's Orange Revoloution. I'm making no accusations against Yush or Yulia, but simplying saying that there might be reasons for the average Ukrainian to doubt that one set is any more honest than the other.
4. The language question: sure, it is waving the red flag but it works every time, doesn't it.
5. don't forget, someone probably did a lot of voters in the east a 'favor' by casting their ballots on their behalf. After all, a busy factory worker might not want to take the trouble to walk over to the polling place when the boss is more than happy to cast his ballot for him, and controls what kind of raise he might get.
All sorts of reasons, you know :-)
My guess is that someone with Orange inclinations wants to keep the other side guessing about the final total. Do dead people vote in Ukraine, like they do in Chicago (or used to, at any rate)?
http://unian.net/ukr/news/news-215203.html
How ticked would u be if co-worker did this to u? alot is done to play on the nerves. Tensions are high but MY THANKS GO OUT TO ALL ELECTION OBSERVERS, ALL ELECTION STAFFERS, ALL MEMBERS OF WATCHDOG ORGANIZATIONS !!!!
Everyone - huge thank you.
Yesterday witnessed over 400 land 'sales' in Kyiv city council - I wonder what is going on in the city council today. And again it is the "orange' who control the city but PoR and Chernovetsky.
WRY, I appreciate your list of the "reasons." And, yes, dead people voted in Chicago and Texas, and elsewhere in the past.
It seems like there is no other way to make a living, or a lot of money, in Ukraine except to suck money out of the government - which is a principal reason that those are sucking on the government tit want to fight so hard to remain on the government tit.
Which includes resorting to every means possible to remain on the government tit.
It is debilitating to the country.
IIU - did you mean that that it is NOT the orange who control Kyiv?
And what is the mechanism to stop, or to remedy, just a huge land grab?
http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372284
Chernovetsky's Bloc has been voting with PoR - that is how they are able to overcome any votes from opposition. It is like the 5th VR situation on a local scale and which is why there has been a call for a new vote for Mayor.
and when first elected mayor
http://blog.kievukraine.info/2006/04/chernovetsky-big-changes-ahead-for.html
http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/219/842
I think Chernoco is still independent of PoR and wary that most Kyivites are not pro-PoR. I think they could be trying to garner some rather big favors with the Oranges...
If he was really PoR's lapdog, wouldn't that have shown up by now?
dlw
Will Chernoco switch again? possibly, if orange coalition is stable and strong in Parliament.
http://publiuspundit.com/2007/10/putin_lashes_out_against_tymos.php