Ukrainian Parliamentary Election: Exit Poll Results And Reactions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts at his party's headquarters in Kyiv as exit poll results are announced on July 21, 2019. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

The first exit poll results are seen at the headquarters of Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party. The  party was on track to win 43.9 percent of the July 21 vote for party lists, according to exit polls as of 6 p.m. local time. (RFE/RL, Serhii Nuzhnenko)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy congratulates his party members and the people of Ukraine as the early exit poll numbers are announced. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Dmytro Razumkov, head of president Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Servant of the People party, speaks at the party's election headquarters in Kyiv before answering questions from the press. (AFP/Genya Savilov)

Ukraine's Opposition Platform-For Life party leaders Viktor Medvedchuk and Yuriy Boyko give a speech at the party's election headquarters in Kyiv. Early exit polls showed their party, which is pushing for better ties with Russia, was on track to come in second with 11.5 percent of the vote. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko greets supporters at the headquarters of European Solidarity. Exit polls predict that Poroshenko's party is set to get 8.9 percent of the votes. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Ukrainian pop-singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk is the leader of the start-up political party Holos or  Voice in Ukrainian. According to the early exit polls his party is set to get 6.3 percent. (EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasiuk)

Headquarters of the Holos party in Kyiv. (RFE/RL, Serhii Nuzhnenko)

A supporter of Holos takes a selfie with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk at the party headquarters in Kyiv. (RFE/RL, Serhii Nuzhnenko)

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk reacts after exit poll results are announced. After the results, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy invited Vakarchuk and his party, Holos, for coalition talks. Vakarchuk told RFE/RL that “If you are in a coalition, you have much more power, many more possibilities to influence and to change things.” (EPA-EFE/Oleg Petrasiuk)

 

Members of a local electoral commission empty a ballot box at a polling station after a parliamentary election in Kyiv, late on July 21. Preliminary official results are expected by early July 22. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)