Snap presidential elections held in
Ukraine on 25 May 2014 resulted in
Petro Poroshenko being elected
President of Ukraine.
[3] Originally scheduled to take place on 29 March 2015, the date was changed following the
2014 Ukrainian revolution.
[4][5] Poroshenko won the elections with 54.7% of the votes, enough to win in a single round.
[1][6] His closest competitor,
Yulia Tymoshenko, emerged with 12.81% of the votes.
[1] The
Central Election Commission reported voter turnout over 60%, excluding the regions not under government control.
[7][8] Since Poroshenko obtained an absolute majority in the first round, a
run-off second ballot (on 15 June 2014
[9]) was unnecessary.
[3][10]
The election was not held everywhere in Ukraine. During the
2014 Crimean crisis, Ukraine lost control over
Crimea, which
was unilaterally annexed by Russia in March 2014.
[11][12][nb 1] As a result, elections were not held in Crimea.
[3] Of the 2,430 planned ballot stations (in Donbas), only 426 remained open for polling.
[14] The
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and
Luhansk People's Republic, controlling large parts of Donbas, had vowed to do everything possible to disrupt the elections on their territory.
[15]
Petro Poroshenko won the presidency and served a full presidential term until
2019, losing to
Volodymyr Zelensky.