Pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovich has a lead of 11 percentage points over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, partial results showed on Monday.
"Votes from 77.85 per cent of the polling stations have been received. Yanukovich has obtained 35.85 per cent of the vote, Tymoshenko 24.69," said the spokesperson for the central election commission, Zoya Sharikova.
Third place went to businessman Sergiy Tigipko with 13 per cent of the vote, she added. The results mean incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko, in fifth place, is eliminated and Yanukovich and Tymoshenko will go into a run-off.
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