Zelensky leads with 30.18%, Poroshenko secures 16.65% as CEC processes 30.52% of voting protocols

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky leads with 30.18% of the vote, as the country's Central Election Commission has processed 30.52% of March 31 voting protocols.

Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko ranks second with 16.65% and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko is third with 13.22%.

Some 11.43% of Ukrainians voted for candidate from the Opposition Platform - For Life Yuriy Boiko, while leader of the Civil Position Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko had 7.04% and ex-chief of Ukraine's SBU Security Service Ihor Smeshko scored 5.95%.

Leader of the Radical Party Oleh Liashko had 5.16%, candidate from the Opposition Bloc Party Oleksandr Vilkul had 4.19%, and 1.65% voted for member of the Svoboda Party Ruslan Koshulynsky.

Independent MP Yuriy Tymoshenko had 0.61% of the vote, candidate from the UKROP Party Oleksandr Shevchenko scored 0.52%, candidate from the Spravedlyvist (Justice) Social and Political Movement Valentyn Nalyvaichenko got 0.23%.

The remaining candidates scored less than 0.2% of the vote each.

Some 1.17% of ballots were declared invalid.