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. Since the summer of 1999 there was heavy competition between candidates. Four candidates
Yevhen Marchuk,
Oleksandr Moroz, (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. The "Kaniv Four" had intentions to present a single candidate who would have a better chance of success. However, they failed to do so and no-one else joined them. On 27 October Oliynyk withdrew his candidacy in favor of
Yevhen Marchuk, while
Oleksandr Tkachenko favored
Petro Symonenko (leader of the
Communist Party of Ukraine).
Registered candidates Udovenko and Kostenko initially were denied in registration, but on 21 May 1999 both were registered. •
Oleksandr Bazylyuk, by
Slavic Party •
Hennadiy Balashov, by group of voters (
Dnipropetrovsk) • , by
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists •
Nataliya Vitrenko, by
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine • , by Patriotic Party of Ukraine •
Yuriy Karmazin, by
Motherland Defenders Party •
Vitaliy Kononov, by
Party of Greens of Ukraine •
Yuriy Kostenko, by group of voters (
Kyiv) •
Leonid Kuchma, by group of voters (
Kyiv) •
Yevhen Marchuk, by Bloc "Our President - Yevhen Marchuk!" (
Social-Democratic Union,
Christian-People's Union,
Ukrainian Republican Party,
Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party) •
Oleksandr Moroz, by
Socialist Party of Ukraine •
Hryhoriy Novodvorsky, by group of voters (Dashiv,
Vinnytsia Oblast) • , by group of voters (
Kirovohrad) •
Vasyl Onopenko, by
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party • , by group of voters (
Khmelnytskyi) •
Oleksandr Rzhavsky, by All-Ukrainian Political Association "One Family" •
Petro Symonenko, by
Communist Party of Ukraine •
Oleksandr Tkachenko, by
Peasant Party of Ukraine •
Hennadiy Udovenko, by
National Movement of Ukraine Registration denied •
Mykola Havrylov •
Borys Holodyuk, by group of voters (Monastyrets,
Lviv Oblast) •
Volodymyr Huba, by group of voter (
Kyiv) •
Valentyna Datsenko, by All-Ukrainian Party of Female Initiatives •
Tetyana Zadorozhna, by group of voters (
Shakhtarsk) •
Oleh Kalashnikov, by group of voters (
Kyiv) •
Valeriy Korotkov, by Women National Party (united) •
Dmytro Korchynsky, by group of voters (Pohoriltsi,
Chernihiv Oblast) •
Pavlo Lazarenko, by
Hromada •
Oleksandr Pukhkal, by group of voters (Mykolaivka,
Kirovohrad Oblast) •
Marian Roketsky, by group of voters (
Ivano-Frankivsk) •
Andriy Taranenko, by group of voters (
Kyiv) •
Volodymyr Yurchenko, by group of voters (
Kyiv)
Candidates All pretenders were required to collect signatures to become candidates. 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. Later another two registered candidates withdrew. •
Oleksandr Bazylyuk, initially denied in registration, Bazylyuk was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 11, 1999 •
Nataliya Vitrenko • , initially denied in registration, Haber was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 9, 1999 •
Yuriy Karmazin, initially denied in registration, Karmazin was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 16, 1999 •
Vitaliy Kononov, initially denied in registration, Kononov was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 12, 1999 •
Yuriy Kostenko •
Leonid Kuchma •
Yevhen Marchuk •
Oleksandr Moroz • •
Vasyl Onopenko, initially denied in registration, Onopenko was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 6, 1999 •
Oleksandr Rzhavsky, initially denied in registration, Rzhavsky was granted candidate status on decision of the
Supreme Court of Ukraine of August 10, 1999 •
Petro Symonenko •
Oleksandr Tkachenko •
Hennadiy Udovenko ==Campaign==