Presidential candidate, leader of the Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych won 48.95% of votes, and presidential candidate, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko received 45.47% of votes, according to results of vote count of 99.97% of protocols from district election commissions, the Central Electoral Commission has informed.

Yanukovych won support of 12,475,543 voters, while Tymoshenko of 11,589,071.

Besides, 4.36% or 1,112,565 voters supported neither of the two candidates.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, at 20:00, February 7, polling stations closed in the second round of the presidential elections, and the vote count started there.

Ukraine had to choose the president between Yanukovych and Tymoshenko who achieved the best results in the first round of the presidential elections on January 17, 2010.

According to data of different exit-polls, 48.5-50.26% of voters supported Yanukovych in the second round of the presidential elections and 44.2-45.7% supported Tymoshenko, and the gap between them was 2.8-6.06%.

The turnout was 69.07% in the runoff.