Interfax: People’s Front, Poroshenko Bloc leaders in Ukraine polls – election commission

KYIV. Oct 28 (Interfax) – Ukraine’s central election commission announced after processing 90.02% of valid protocols that the People’s Front had won 22.16% and Petro Poroshenko Bloc 21.77% of the votes in Sunday’s parliamentary polls.

The Samopomich association garnered 10.96% of the votes, Opposition Bloc 9.35%, Radical Party 7.46% and Batkivshchina 5.7% according to figures displayed at the Central Election Commission’s press center.

The other parties and blocs did not override the 5% threshold required for parliamentary representation. The nationalist party Svoboda mustered 4.71% of the votes.

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