[1] The result was a victory for Leonid Kuchma, who defeated Petro Symonenko in the run-off, winning a second consecutive presidential election.

A total of 32 individuals applied for registration as candidates for the presidency, of whom 19 were registered by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine; the other 13 had their applications rejected.

Four candidates Yevhen Marchuk, Oleksandr Moroz, Volodymyr Oliynyk [uk] (mayor of Cherkasy), and Oleksandr Tkachenko (speaker of the Verkhovna Rada) met in Kaniv and called on all candidates to ensure just and honest elections.

In the process ten pretenders were not able to gather the required signatures, while six were reinstated on decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

According to historian Serhy Yekelchyk President Kuchma's administration "employed electoral fraud freely" during the election.