# 1991 Ukrainian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991, the first direct presidential elections in the country's history. Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and de facto acting president, ran as an independent candidate and was elected for a five-year term with 62% of the vote.
An independence referendum held on the same day saw 92% of voters voting to secede from the Soviet Union. All six presidential candidates supported independence and had campaigned for a "yes" vote in the referendum.

## Results

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Leonid Kravchuk | Independent | 19,643,481 | 61.59 |
| | Viacheslav Chornovil | People's Movement of Ukraine | 7,420,727 | 23.27 |
| | Levko Lukianenko | Ukrainian Republican Party | 1,432,556 | 4.49 |
| | Volodymyr Hrynyov | Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine | 1,329,758 | 4.17 |
| | Ihor Yukhnovskyi | Independent | 554,719 | 1.74 |
| | Leopold Taburyanskyi | People's Party of Ukraine | 182,713 | 0.57 |
| Against all and invalid votes | Against all and invalid votes | Against all and invalid votes | 1,327,788 | 4.16 |
| Total | Total | Total | 31,891,742 | 100.00 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 31,891,742 | – |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 37,885,555 | 84.18 |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver |||||

### By region

| Region | Winner | Winner | Runner-up | Runner-up | Third | Third |
| Region | Candidate | % | Candidate | % | Candidate | % |
| Crimean ASSR | Leonid Kravchuk | 56.6 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 9.4 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 8.0 |
| Vinnytsia | Leonid Kravchuk | 72.3 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 18.2 | Levko Lukianenko | 3.3 |
| Volyn | Leonid Kravchuk | 51.7 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 31.4 | Levko Lukianenko | 8.9 |
| Dnipropetrovsk | Leonid Kravchuk | 69.7 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 18.2 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 3.2 |
| Donetsk | Leonid Kravchuk | 71.5 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 11.0 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 9.6 |
| Zhytomyr | Leonid Kravchuk | 77.6 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 14.0 | Levko Lukianenko | 3.3 |
| Zakarpattia | Leonid Kravchuk | 58.0 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 27.6 | Levko Lukianenko | 5.0 |
| Zaporizhzhia | Leonid Kravchuk | 74.7 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 13.0 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 3.9 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | Viacheslav Chornovil | 67.1 | Leonid Kravchuk | 13.7 | Levko Lukianenko | 11.8 |
| Kyiv | Leonid Kravchuk | 66.0 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 21.2 | Levko Lukianenko | 5.6 |
| Kirovohrad | Leonid Kravchuk | 74.8 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 15.6 | Levko Lukianenko | 3.5 |
| Luhansk | Leonid Kravchuk | 76.2 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 9.9 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 6.8 |
| Lviv | Viacheslav Chornovil | 75.9 | Leonid Kravchuk | 11.5 | Levko Lukianenko | 4.7 |
| Mykolaiv | Leonid Kravchuk | 72.3 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 15.1 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 5.6 |
| Odesa | Leonid Kravchuk | 70.7 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 12.8 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 8.4 |
| Poltava | Leonid Kravchuk | 75.1 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 13.6 | Levko Lukianenko | 4.2 |
| Rivne | Leonid Kravchuk | 53.1 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 25.7 | Levko Lukianenko | 13.4 |
| Sumy | Leonid Kravchuk | 72.4 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 14.7 | Levko Lukianenko | 3.8 |
| Ternopil | Viacheslav Chornovil | 57.5 | Levko Lukianenko | 19.6 | Leonid Kravchuk | 16.8 |
| Kharkiv | Leonid Kravchuk | 60.9 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 19.7 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 10.9 |
| Kherson | Leonid Kravchuk | 70.2 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 18.1 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 3.3 |
| Khmelnytskyi | Leonid Kravchuk | 75.5 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 15.4 | Levko Lukianenko | 3.3 |
| Cherkasy | Leonid Kravchuk | 67.1 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 25.0 | Levko Lukianenko | 2.0 |
| Chernivtsi | Leonid Kravchuk | 43.6 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 42.7 | Levko Lukianenko | 4.4 |
| Chernihiv | Leonid Kravchuk | 74.2 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 12.3 | Levko Lukianenko | 6.7 |
| Kyiv City | Leonid Kravchuk | 56.1 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 26.7 | Levko Lukianenko | 6.4 |
| Sevastopol | Leonid Kravchuk | 54.7 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 10.9 | Volodymyr Hrynyov | 8.4 |
| Total | Leonid Kravchuk | 61.6 | Viacheslav Chornovil | 23.3 | Levko Lukianenko | 4.5 |
| Source: Electoral Geography |||||||