UKRAINE: AS POLLS CLOSE AND VOTES ARE COUNTED SUGGESTIONS ARE THAT PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR YUSCHENKO HAS WON MORE VOTES

Record ID: 328722

  • Title: UKRAINE: AS POLLS CLOSE AND VOTES ARE COUNTED SUGGESTIONS ARE THAT PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR YUSCHENKO HAS WON MORE VOTES
  • Date: 2nd November 2004
  • Summary: (U7) KIEV, UKRAINE (OCTOBER 31, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. 0.27 MV INTERIOR OF POLLING STATION; MV OFFICIAL OPENING BALLOT BOX; SCU BALLOT PAPERS BEING REMOVED FROM BALLOT BOX 2. MV OFFICIALS COUNTING VOTES; WIDE OF POLLING STATION INTERIOR 1.05 (W7) KIEV, UKRAINE (OCTOBER 31, 2004) (REUTERS) 3. WIDE OF THE NEWS CONFERENCE OF THE UKRAINIAN POLLSTER; MV MEDIA 4. SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN POLLSTER REPRESENTATIVE ILYA KUCHERIV, SAYING: "By the method of anonimous questioning the main results are: Yuschenko - 45, 23 per cent, Yanukovich - 36, 74, sorry, 36, 79 per cent. By the interview method:Yuschenko - 41, 98 per cent, Yanukovich - 40, 11 per cent. That's the main results." 1.51 5. SCU VIKTOR YUSCHENKO PORTRAIT ON THE SCREEN AT HIS ELECTION HEADQUARTERS 2.04 6. UKRAINE TV PRESENTER ANNOUNCES THE LEAD OF VIKTOR YUSCHENKO IN THE EXIT POLLS; MV PEOPLE AT YUSCHENKO HEADQUARTER CHEERING; MV VOTE-COUNTING 2.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Reuters ID: LVA2OZB44EVNBXROAV2L8ZBBH5EQ
  • Story Text: Polls close, votes are counted, and suggestions are
    Yuschenko has won more votes.

    Two polls, conducted by Ukrainian research
    institutes, put Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko ahead of
    Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who favours Russia.

    But both leading candidates fell short of the 50
    percent needed to win outright in the first round.

    According to one poll, in which respondents concealed
    their identity, Yushchenko scored 45.2 percent to 36.7
    percent for the prime minister. Another survey, in which
    voters were identified, gave Yushchenko a tighter lead,
    41.98 percent to 40.11.

    Election observers said many voters, wary after a
    bruising campaign, were reluctant to reveal their
    identities. Official returns from the contest, with 24
    candidates in the running, were to start coming in later on
    Sunday.

    The election, the most hotly contested of post-Soviet
    times, offered Ukrainians the stark choice of intensifying
    traditional links with Moscow or gradual movement towards
    the West.

    Each of the two leading camps had accused the other of
    trying to subvert the election. The United States and the
    European Union voiced concern at some aspects of the
    campaign and called for a clean vote.

    Both hopefuls know the importance of good ties with
    Russia, Ukraine's giant neighbour which ran its affairs for
    300 years, but big differences in policy and philosophy
    divide them.


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