At stake in this election:

• The office of President of Ukraine

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Leonid D. KUCHMA
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Valeriy PUSTOVOYTENKO
• Assembly: Ukraine has a unicameral Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) with 450 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
• The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
• In the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada), 225 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 225 members are allocated by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms.

Main Candidates in the Second Round of the Presidential race:

• Kuchma Leonid Danylovych
  • Party: "Our Choice"
• Petro Symonenko
  • Party: Communist Party
• Other Candidates & Votes Against All Candidates
  • Party: N/A

Main Candidates in the First Round of the Presidential race:

• Kuchma Leonid Danylovych
  • Party: "Our Choice"
• Petro Symonenko
  • Party: Communist Party
• Moroz Oleksandrovych
  • Party: Socialist Party of Ukraine
• Natalya Vitrenko
  • Party: Progessive Socialist Party
• Yevgeny Marchuk
  • Party: Kanev Four
• Other Candidates & Votes Against All Candidates
  • Party: N/A

Last Presidential election:

• Elections were last held on July 10, 1994. In the last election President KUCHMA received 51.24% of the vote, thereby defeating Leonid KRAVCHUK, who received 45.06% of the vote.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 49,811,174 (July 1999 est.)
• Registered Voters: 37,498,630 (1999)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 26,543,240 (1999)

·         Is Ukraine a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)

·         Has Ukraine ratified CEDAW: Yes (12 March 1981)

·         Gender Quota: No

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 35 (following the 1998 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: 81 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low (2014)

Disability Data:

·         Is Ukraine a signatory to CRPD: Yes (24 September 2008)

·         Has Ukraine ratified CRPD: Yes (4 February 2010)

·         Population with a disability: 7,471,676 (est.)