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Pro-Russian Opposition Bloc Scores 7.8% of Votes in Ukraine Elections: Exit Poll

© RIA Novosti . Maxim Blinov / Go to the mediabankSnap parliamentary elections are underway in Ukraine.
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Opposition Bloc, which is a Ukrainian party advocating closer ties with Russia, has come forth in the ongoing parliamentary elections in Ukraine with 7.6 percent of the votes, an international exit poll showed Sunday.

Updated 9:33 p.m. Moscow Time

KIEV, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Opposition Bloc, which is a Ukrainian party advocating closer ties with Russia, came fourth in the ongoing parliamentary elections in Ukraine with 7.6 percent of the votes, an international exit poll showed Sunday.

The exit poll was conducted Ukraine-wide by the government of Canada, Ukraine’s opinion research group Rating and Lithuania’s Baltic Surveys/The Gallup Organization in coordination with the International Republican Institute (IRI). Surveys involved some 20,000 respondents in at least 330 constituencies.

A separate exit poll by local ‘Ukraina’ TV channel gave the pro-Russian party 11.12 percent of the votes.

According to the international exit poll, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s party called Poroshenko's Bloc is dominating the Ukrainian parliamentary election with 22.2% of the votes, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People's Front is in close pursuit with 21.8%, followed by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy’s Samopomoshch (Selfhelp) party.

Snap parliamentary elections are underway in Ukraine. Ukrainians are going to the polls to vote in 423 members of parliament — 225 of them from party lists and 198 in single-candidate constituencies. The electoral threshold has been set at five percent.

President Poroshenko dissolved the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada in August and ordered snap general elections to ensure a pro-Europe majority in the parliament while clearing out lawmakers loyal to ex-leader Viktor Yanukovych.

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