1999 Ukrainian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October 1999, with a second round on 14 November. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 1976. The result was a victory for Leonid Kuchma, who defeated Petro Symonenko in the run-off.

Electoral system

At the time of election the population in Ukraine was 50,105,600 with 34,017,400 living in cities. The most districts contained the Donetsk Oblast (23) as the most populous one, the least electoral districts among oblasts were in the Chernivtsi Oblast, only 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 moment 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.

Registered candidates

* 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, 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

''Notes:''
* Udovenko and Kostenko initially were denied in registration, but on May 21, 1999 both were registered.

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

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