Ukraine’s presidential runoff has set several records. For one, the showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy won an unprecedented share of the vote. In the 30 years since Ukraine gained its independence, the country has never seen anything like it. Less than a quarter of the electorate voted for the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko.
2019 Presidential Election
Deutsche Welle: How Volodymyr Zelenskiy beat Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine
Members of a local electoral commission empty a ballot box to count votes after the second round of Ukraine's presidential election at a polling station in Kyiv on April 21, 2019.
