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1994 Ukrainian presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Ukraine
type	presidential
previous_election	1991 Ukrainian presidential election
previous_year	1991
next_election	1999 Ukrainian presidential election
next_year	1999
election_date	26 June 1994 (first round)
10 July 1994 (second round)
turnout	70.37% (first round) 13.81pp
71.63% (second round)
image1	НДУ 2 Кучма Леонід Данилович.jpg
nominee1	Leonid Kuchma
party1	Independent politician
popular_vote1	14,016,850
percentage1	52.35%
image2	Leonid Kravchuk (1) (cropped).jpg
nominee2	Leonid Kravchuk
party2	Independent politician
popular_vote2	12,111,603
percentage2	45.24%
map_image	{{Switcher
default	2
title	President
before_election	Leonid Kravchuk
after_election	Leonid Kuchma
before_party	Independent politician
after_party	Independent politician

10 July 1994 (second round) 71.63% (second round)

Early presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 26 June 1994, with a second round on 10 July. They were held ahead of schedule following a compromise between President Leonid Kravchuk and the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. The elections saw Kravchuk defeated by his former Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma. They were the first presidential elections in the Commonwealth of Independent States in which the incumbent was defeated.

Kuchma took office on 19 July, marking the first peaceful transfer of power in Ukraine since the fall of Communism.

Background

On 17 June 1993, the Verkhovna Rada voted to hold a referendum on 26 September that would serve as a motion of no confidence in President Kravchuk. However, the referendum was cancelled two days before it was due to be held. The Verkhovna Rada instead decided to hold early parliamentary elections on 24 March 1994, and early presidential elections two months later.

Results

In the first round, Kravchuk was supported by the People's Movement (which had originally collected signatures for Volodymyr Lanovyi) and the Democratic Association, an alliance of right-wing parties that viewed Kuchma as pro-Russian. Kuchma was supported by the Interregional Bloc of Reforms, and Socialist Party candidate Oleksandr Moroz was supported by the Communist Party and Peasant Party. After Moroz was knocked out, the Communists supported Kuchma in the second round.

Notes

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 {{ISBN. 9783832956097
Birch, Sarah. (1995). "The Ukrainian parliamentary and presidential elections of 1994". Electoral Studies.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140923004702/http://analitik.org.ua/ukr/publications/joint/3dd12dea/3dd13f15/ Political parties of Ukraine in cooperation with structures of power] Kyiv center of political research and conflictology
Polishchuk. Tatiana. (1999-05-15). "". link
Nohlen & Stöver, p1993

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