OPORA parallel vote count: Zelenskyi leads in first round with 30.1%, Petro Poroshenko has 15.7% and Yuliia Tymoshenko 13.3%

OPORA civil network disclosed the results of a parallel vote count.

Censor.NET reports citing OPORA website. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyi holds the lead in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election with 30.1% of the vote, whereas Petro Poroshenko has 15.7% and Yuliia Tymoshenko 13.3%, according to the results of a parallel vote count conducted by the OPORA civil network.

Behind the top three are Yurii Boiko - 11.5%, Anatolii Hrytsenko - 6.8%, Ihor Smeshko - 5.9%, Oleh Liashko - 5.5%, and Oleksandr Vilkul – 4.1%.

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The OPORA civil network on March 31 carried out a parallel vote count on the basis of a sample representative for the whole Ukraine, based on 1,296 reports from 1,304 specially trained and officially registered observers.