POLITICS. The Central Election Commission has announced the official results of the 26 December vote in the single nationwide single-mandate constituency for the election of the President of Ukraine. Viktor YUSHCHENKO has been declared the winner of the election. According to UNIAN, 15 million 115 thousand 712 people voted for Viktor YUSHCHENKO, which constitutes 51.99%. 12 million 848 thousand 528 people voted for Viktor YANUKOVYCH, which constitutes 44.20% of voters. Voters who did not support any candidate - 682 thousand 239 people (2.34%). According to CEC data, 37 million 657 thousand 704 people were included in the voter lists. The number of voters who received ballots - 29 million 073 thousand 76 (77.2%). The number of voters who took part in the voting - 29 million 068 thousand 971 (77.19%). The number of ballots recognized as invalid - 422 thousand 492 pieces (1.45%). CEC members read out the voting results for all 226 territorial election districts (225 districts in Ukraine and a separate foreign district) and entered this information into the general protocol. Members of the Central Election Commission signed the protocol on establishing the results of the repeat vote of 26 December 2004 in the election of the President of Ukraine. Yuriy DONCHENKO and Bronislav RAIKOVSKY signed the protocol with remarks, CEC chairman Yaroslav DAVYDOVYCH reported. He noted that the protocol was drawn up on 10 January 2005 at 23:10.