This was discussed at the "Independent Public Press Center 'Volyn Choice – 2006'" during a meeting of journalists with the head of the Volyn branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Oleksandr Stirk, the head of the regional election headquarters of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Yevhen KyryLchuk, and the head of the…

BYuT - 40.8% Our Ukraine – 18.5% Bloc "Kostenko-Plyushch" - 6.4% Borys Klymchuk's Bloc "Native Volyn" - 4.4% Lytvyn's Bloc – 3.6% SPU – 2.9%

BYuT - 38.42% Our Ukraine – 18.85% Block "PORA-PRP" - 5.61% Block "Kostenko-Plyushch" - 4.93%

To the Lutsk City Council: BYuT - 37% Our Ukraine – 12.2% "Kostenko-Plyushch" Bloc - 4.3%

As of 16:00 on March 27, the Central Election Commission has processed 39.91 percent of protocols in the Volyn region (single-mandate constituency 20-26).

Two Western international observation missions positively assess the conduct of parliamentary elections in Ukraine, as stated in their preliminary reports.

According to the parallel vote count conducted by the headquarters of the Civic Bloc "PORA-PRP" in the city of Lutsk, among the "orange" forces in Lutsk, BYuT is gaining 38.3% of the votes for the city council, Our Ukraine – 19.3%, Bloc "PORA-PRP" - 5.6%, Bloc "Kostenko-Plyushch" - 4.8%.

The head of the regional state administration was unable to vote in the elections on March 26, 2006. A member of the precinct election commission refused to issue him ballots for voting on the basis of a note next to the voter's surname - "departed for another place of residence"...

On March 27 at 11:00 in Lutsk, the voting results have been processed at only one-third of the 75 polling stations. In the Lutsk mayoral elections, at some polling stations the incumbent mayor Anton Kryvytskyi is leading, at others – self-nominee Bohdan Shyba.

By 22:00, 74.1% of voters had voted. The lowest turnout was recorded in cities of regional subordination – from 65.8% (Lutsk) to 68% (Volodymyr-Volynskyi). In the districts of the region, voter turnout was at least 72.6% (Ratnivskyi). This is reported by the Western Information Corporation. \n