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October Ukrainian Election lowest turnout on record With 35Million voters registered (Including Crimea) less than 15.5Million voters participated with the most of the non participants coming from Eastern Ukraine. The voter turnout was lower in all Regions (Oblasts) By comparison we compared the 2012 Parliamentary elections to the October 26, 2014 election. 35800128 registered 20388019 (56.94%) voted  35373498 registered ~15772155 (44.58%) voted A difference of 12.37% or 4.73 million voters * Crimea represents ~02.04% voters Most if not all of the non-voters in 2014 would have supported Party of Regions or the Communist Party of Ukraine For detailed publication of election results Click here see our dynamic election map  Official Election results CVK website

Source: The Washington Post By Erik Herron and Nazar Boyko September 6 at 4:48 PM A Ukrainian policeman stands in front of a voting booth as he secures the polling station in the village of Kosmach in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), western Ukraine May 24, 2014. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel As part of our continuing series of Monkey Cage Election Reports , the following is a pre-election report on Ukraine’s upcoming parliamentary election by political scientists  Erik Herron  of West Virginia University, and Nazar Boyko of CIFRA Group . ****** On Aug. 25, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree dissolving parliament and calling early parliamentary elections for Oct. 26. Ukraine faces several critical issues to ensure that the next round of elections goes as smoothly as possible, notably administering elections in regions of instability and addressing the implications of changes in the partisan landscape. Ukraine’s last pa...