With 100% of protocols from the abroad constituency counted, 60.57% of the votes were given for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and 33.96% for Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of Regions, reads a statement made by the Central Electoral Commission.

According to the preliminary data of the Central Electoral Commission, 27,374 of pollers voted for Tymoshenko and 15,349 for Yanukovych.

In all, 45,193 of the votes were counted; 4.54% of Ukrainians voting abroad supported none of the two candidates.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Central Electoral Commission created 113 precinct election commissions 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 from 8 am to 8 pm.

The two candidates in the second round of the presidential elections are the Party of 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.

First to vote were Ukrainians in Australia: at 11pm on February 6 Kyiv time; the last in San Francisco, US at 6 am on February 8 Kyiv time.

Presidential candidate, leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych won 48.94% votes, and presidential candidate, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko received 45.48% votes, according to results of vote count of 99.94% protocols from precinct election commissions.

In the first round on January 17, 29.57% of Ukrainians supported Yanukovych, 23.24% supported Tymoshenko with 100% of protocols from abroad polling stations counted.

They tallied 32,015 of votes; 1.93% of voters abroad supported neither of the candidates.

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