With 96.46% of the votes counted at the polling stations located outside Ukraine, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has 59.74% of the votes and the Party of the Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych has 34.89%.

The Central Electoral Commission announced this in a statement.

According to the preliminary data of the Central Electoral Commission, Tymoshenko has won 25,047 votes and Yanukovych has won 14,626.

In total, 41,920 votes were cast at polling stations located outside Ukraine (4.5% did not vote for any of the two candidates).

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Central Electoral Commission set up 113 polling stations outside Ukraine.

Foreign Affairs Minister Petro Poroshenko has said that the level of organization of voting at the polling stations located outside Ukraine was high and that voting took place in a calm atmosphere during the second round of the presidential elections.

Voting in the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections took place on February 7.

The two candidates in the second round of the presidential elections are the Party of the Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who won the largest numbers of votes in the first round of the presidential elections on January 17.

With 98.42% of the votes counted, Yanukovych has 48.6% and Tymoshenko has 45.81%.