2016 Volkian presidential election

2016 Volkian presidential election

June 19, 2016 (2016-06-19) (first round) July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03) (second round)
Turnout	81.45% (first round) 83.40% (second round)
Candidate Yuliya Surkova Kateryna Lysenka Party SDU KP Running mate Vladimir Burmakin Taras Demchenko Popular vote 14,662,054 11,711,502 Percentage 55.59% 44.41
President before election Zakhar Kreskov SDU Elected President Yuliya Surkova SDU

Presidential elections were held in Volkia on June 19, 2016. The 33rd presidential elections, voters chose a new president as the incumbent, Zakhar Kreskov, was term limited. Because no candidate received a majority of votes in the first round, a run-off between the top two candidates, Yuliya Surkova and Kateryna Lysenka, was held on July 3. Yuliya Surkova won the election in the second round with 55.59% of the vote, the first woman in Volkian history to win a presidential election. The election was also the first in Volkian history to feature two women in the run-off election. Surkova was inaugurated on August, 6, 2016.

Results

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Yuliya Surkova	Social Democratic Union	8,452,158	32.97	14,662,054	55.59
	Kateryna Lysenka	Conservative Party	7,125,687	27.79	11,711,502	44.41
	Sergey Kuznetsov	Liberal Party	3,298,025	12.86
	Andriy Shevchenko	Socialist Labor League	3,078,951	12.01
	Petro Tkachenkov	Volkian Green Party	2,985,715	11.65
	Artur Kamenev	Independent	378,140	1.47
	Viktor Zakharov	Independent	318,752	1.24
Total			25,637,428	100.00	26,373,556	100.00
Valid votes			25,637,428	98.85	26,373,556	99.07
Invalid/blank votes			299,224	1.15	248,904	0.93
Total votes			25,936,652	100.00	26,622,460	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			31,842,590	81.45	31,920,573	83.40
Source: National Elections Commission

	Volkian Federative Republic
Main article: Volkia
Important Topics: Culture ♦ Lupine ♦ Volkian language ♦ Lunarism ♦ Volkian korona ♦ Defense Forces
Government: Federal Government ♦ President ♦ Cabinet ♦ National Assembly ♦ Federal Supreme Court ♦ Political Parties
History: Grand Principality of Volkia ♦ Duchy of Volkia ♦ Kingdom of Volkia ♦ Volkian Civil War ♦ Northern Revolt ♦ Volkian Revolution
Important Figures (Past and Present): Yuliya Surkova ♦ Aleksey Pushkarev ♦ Stefan Gurkovsky ♦ Ivan Ogarkov ♦ Vasily Tolmachyov ♦ Yulian Lebedev