1994 Ukrainian presidential election

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Turnout	70.37% (first round) 13.81pp 71.63% (second round)
Nominee Leonid Kuchma Leonid Kravchuk Party Independent Independent Popular vote 14,016,850 12,111,603 Percentage 52.35% 45.24%
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Early presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 26 June 1994, with a second round on 10 July.^[1][2] They were held ahead of schedule following a compromise between President Leonid Kravchuk and the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. The elections saw Kravchuk defeated by his former Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma. They were the first presidential elections in the Commonwealth of Independent States in which the incumbent was defeated.

Kuchma took office on 19 July, marking the first peaceful transfer of power in Ukraine since the fall of Communism.

On 17 June 1993, the Verkhovna Rada voted to hold a referendum on 26 September that would serve as a motion of no confidence in President Kravchuk. However, the referendum was cancelled two days before it was due to be held. The Verkhovna Rada instead decided to hold early parliamentary elections on 24 March 1994, and early presidential elections two months later.

In the first round, Kravchuk was supported by the People's Movement (which had originally collected signatures for Volodymyr Lanovyi) and the Democratic Association, an alliance of right-wing parties that viewed Kuchma as pro-Russian. Kuchma was supported by the Interregional Bloc of Reforms, and Socialist Party candidate Oleksandr Moroz was supported by the Communist Party and Peasant Party.^[3] After Moroz was knocked out, the Communists supported Kuchma in the second round.^[4]