• Source: 1999 Ukrainian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October 1999, with a second round on 14 November. The result was a victory for Leonid Kuchma, who defeated Petro Symonenko in the run-off, winning a second consecutive presidential election.
As of 2024, this is the only re-election of an incumbent president in the history of independent Ukraine.




Electoral system


At the time of election the population in Ukraine was 50,105,600 with 34,017,400 living in cities. The Donetsk Oblast, the most populous oblast, contained the most electoral districts, with 23. The least electoral districts among oblasts were in the Chernivtsi Oblast, which only had 4. The city of Kyiv had 12 electoral districts and Sevastopol 2. There also was a special out-of-country district available for voters who at the time of elections were not available to vote in Ukraine.




Registration


There were 32 individuals who submitted their documents for registration as pretenders on candidate to the President of Ukraine. Out of them, 19 pretenders were registered with the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to run for presidential elections, the rest 13 were denied in registration.
Since the summer of 1999 there had been a sharp competition between the candidates. Four candidates Yevhen Marchuk, Oleksandr Moroz, Volodymyr Oliynyk (mayor of Cherkasy), and Oleksandr Tkachenko (speaker of Verkhovna Rada) met in Kaniv and called on all candidates to ensure just and honest elections. The "Kaniv Four" had intentions to present a single candidate who would have a better chance of success. However, they failed to do so and no-one else joined them. On 27 October Oliynyk withdrew his candidacy in favor of Yevhen Marchuk, while Oleksandr Tkachenko favored Petro Symonenko (leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine).




= Registered candidates

=
Udovenko and Kostenko initially were denied in registration, but on 21 May 1999 both were registered.

Oleksandr Bazylyuk, by Slavic Party
Hennadiy Balashov, by group of voters (Dnipropetrovsk)
Ivan Bilas, by Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
Nataliya Vitrenko, by Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
Mykola Haber, by Patriotic Party of Ukraine
Yuriy Karmazin, by Motherland Defenders Party
Vitaliy Kononov, by Party of Greens of Ukraine
Yuriy Kostenko, by group of voters (Kyiv)
Leonid Kuchma, by group of voters (Kyiv)
Yevhen Marchuk, by Bloc "Our President - Yevhen Marchuk!" (Social-Democratic Union, Christian-People's Union, Ukrainian Republican Party, Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party)
Oleksandr Moroz, by Socialist Party of Ukraine
Hryhoriy Novodvorsky, by group of voters (Dashiv, Vinnytsia Oblast)
Volodymyr Oliynyk, by group of voters (Kirovohrad)
Vasyl Onopenko, by Ukrainian Social Democratic Party
Mykhailo Pavlovsky, by group of voters (Khmelnytskyi)
Oleksandr Rzhavsky, by All-Ukrainian Political Association "One Family"
Petro Symonenko, by Communist Party of Ukraine
Oleksandr Tkachenko, by Peasant Party of Ukraine
Hennadiy Udovenko, by National Movement of Ukraine




= Registration denied

=
Mykola Havrylov
Borys Holodyuk, by group of voters (Monastyrets, Lviv Oblast)
Volodymyr Huba, by group of voter (Kyiv)
Valentyna Datsenko, by All-Ukrainian Party of Female Initiatives
Tetyana Zadorozhna, by group of voters (Shakhtarsk)
Oleh Kalashnikov, by group of voters (Kyiv)
Valeriy Korotkov, by Women National Party (united)
Dmytro Korchynsky, by group of voters (Pohoriltsi, Chernihiv Oblast)
Pavlo Lazarenko, by Hromada
Oleksandr Pukhkal, by group of voters (Mykolaivka, Kirovohrad Oblast)
Marian Roketsky, by group of voters (Ivano-Frankivsk)
Andriy Taranenko, by group of voters (Kyiv)
Volodymyr Yurchenko, by group of voters (Kyiv)




= Candidates

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All pretenders were required to collect signatures to become candidates. In the process ten pretenders were not able to gather the required signatures, while six were reinstated on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Later another two registered candidates withdrew.

Oleksandr Bazylyuk, initially denied in registration, Bazylyuk was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 11, 1999
Nataliya Vitrenko
Mykola Haber, initially denied in registration, Haber was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 9, 1999
Yuriy Karmazin, initially denied in registration, Karmazin was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 16, 1999
Vitaliy Kononov, initially denied in registration, Kononov was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 12, 1999
Yuriy Kostenko
Leonid Kuchma
Yevhen Marchuk
Oleksandr Moroz
Volodymyr Oliynyk
Vasyl Onopenko, , initially denied in registration, Onopenko was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 6, 1999
Oleksandr Rzhavsky, , initially denied in registration, Rzhavsky was granted candidate status on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 10, 1999
Petro Symonenko
Oleksandr Tkachenko
Hennadiy Udovenko




Campaign


During the campaign Kuchma was supported by the Bloc "Our Choice – Leonid Kuchma!"
On 27 October 1999 Oliynyk and Tkachenko withdrew from the election campaign.




Conduct


According to historian Serhy Yekelchyk President Kuchma's administration "employed electoral fraud freely" during the election.




Results


In the first round the most oblasts and the out-of-country district were won by Leonid Kuchma. In seven oblasts the top candidate was Petro Symonenko mostly in the centre and south. Oleksandr Moroz managed to become the leader in the more agrarian oriented Poltava and Vinnytsia Oblasts. Nataliya Vitrenko took the peak of the candidate list in the Sumy Oblast.




References






Bibliography


Fritz, D. V. "State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia". Central European University Press. Budapest 2008. ISBN 9637326995




External links


Ukrainian presidential election, 1999. Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine website.
Handbook on preparation to the Foreign Independent Evaluation (ZNO) on history of Ukraine. www.history.vn.ua
Romanyuk, A.S., Skochilias, L.S., and others. Electoral map of Lviv region in inter regional section. Lviv: TsPD, 2010.
Tantsiura, V. Political history of Ukraine.
Yulia Tyshchenko, Ukrainian Independent Center of Political Studies.
1999 Presidential elections. Central Electoral Commission. Kyiv 2000
1999 Presidential elections: how it was. Part 2. Freedom of speech in Ukraine.

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