Party of Regions Leads All Public Exit Polls; Five Parties Cross Parliamentary Threshold
Multipleexit pollsshow thatParty of Regions, the United Opposition, UDAR, the Communist Party and Svoboda will all cross the 5 percent threshold required to gain seats in the Verkhovna
Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament)
 
in today’s parliamentary elections
.The Party of Regions is projected to earn between 27.6 and 31.6 percent of support, with anaverage of a six-point le
ad over it’s nearest
competitor.Additionally, polling shows the United Opposition with a lead over UDAR after the two werelocked in a battle for second and third place.Finally, Svoboda is projected to make it well beyond the required 5 percent threshold neededto win seats in the parliament.
 
Exit Poll by Research & Branding Group:
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31.6% Party of Regions
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23.7% Batkivshchyna United Opposition
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13.2% UDAR
32%28%30%28%32%24%25%24%23%23%13%15%15%14%14%13%12%12%13%12%11%12%12%13%13%
0%5%10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45%50%
Party of RegionsUnitedOppositionUDARCommunistParty
 
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13% Communist Party
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11% Svoboda
 
Exit Poll by TNS/Center for Social and Marketing Research SOCIS/Shuster:
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30.48% Party of Regions
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23.87% Batkivshchyna United Opposition
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14.67% UDAR
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12.07% Communist Party
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11.92% Svoboda
 
Exit Poll by Razumkov:
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28.1% Party of Regions
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24.7% Batkivshchyna United Opposition
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15.1% UDAR
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11.8% Communist Party
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12.3% Svoboda
 
Exit Poll by Social Monitoring:
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32% Party of Regions
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23.2% Batkivshchyna United Opposition
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14.4% UDAR
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11.5% Communist Party
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Svoboda
 
Exit Poll by Rating Group:
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27.6% Party of Regions
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23.4% Batkivshchyna United Opposition
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14.3% UDAR
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12.5% Communist Party
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12.5% Svoboda
Initial Reactions from International Observers Positive
International election observer groups will issue their final verdicts on the parliamentaryelections tomorrow, but with nearly 4,000 international observers takin
g part in today’s vote,
the initial reactions were positive.Observers noted technical problems but not major violations that would tilt the outcome of the vote.
 
"Overall, the organization is excellent, the atmosphere is friendly. These are fair andtransparent elections," MEP Daniel van der Stoep (the Netherlands) said at a Sunday newsconference.He noted that the choices of some voters were visible in the transparent ballot boxes, andother observers said that information at some polling stations did not also appear in Russian.But MEP Gerhard Huber (Austria) said that the elections were transparent on the whole."I want to congratulate the organizers that they were able to organize open elections. I have nocriticism of the electoral process," he said."I talked to many observers, they are satisfied with the process, and I am glad that theUkrainian government is doing everything possible to enable people t
o express their will,”
British MP John Whittingdale said Sunday in Kiev. 
Alex Miller, an Israeli observer said, “Basically everything goes fine.”
An observer from the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of IndependentStates, Valery Shnyakin, added: "I would not say that everything is perfect... Unfortunately,
there are shortcomings,” but she added that she did not think they were significant enough to
impact the outcome."We have noticed that everything was quiet, and everyone with whom we spoke confirmedthat everything was democratic, without any problems and failures," Stella Misauli, an observerfor Cyprus, said.Representatives of theCentral European Group for Political Monitoring also pronounced themselves satisfied with the conduct of Election Day. At a briefing Sunday afternoon,representatives from the group said they had not recorded any serious violations in two days of observation."This is a well-organized election campaign, with no extraordinary events," American politicalscientist Srdja Trifkovic said.
Statement on Elections from Party of Regions Chairman Mykola Azarov
Party of Regions Chairman Mykola Azarov issued the following statement today on the conductof parliamentary elections.
“Today the people of Ukraine took another step forward on the road to becoming a more
 developed European democracy.
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