Ukraine's Committee of Voters has released the results of an exit poll it commissioned.
According to the poll, current Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko (UDAR) advances to the second round of the city's mayoral election with 40.4 percent of votes, followed by former acting mayor Volodymyr Bondarenko (Fatherland) who received 8.7 percent of the votes.
The top three parties in the Kyiv city council elections are Petro Poroshenko's bloc Solidarity (28.3 percent), Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy's Self Help party (10.3 percent), and Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party (10.1 percent).
In Kharkiv, the incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Kernes (Revival) is projected to win outright in the first round with 59.3 percent of the votes.
In Dnipropetrovsk, two mayoral candidates should advance to the second round -- Borys Filatov (who is associated with local oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyy) with 39.1 percent support and Oleksandr Vilkul, a representative of the Opposition Bloc, who garnered 33.1 percent of the votes.
No exit polls were conducted in Donetsk Oblast, according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Oleksiy Matsuka:
It this is to be believed, there might be a few unexpected twists and turns in these elections before they're finally done and dusted. The Kyiv exit poll we quoted earlier actually had Serhiy Gusovsky in fourth place on 8 percent, not too far behind second-placed Volodymyr Bondarenko with 8.7 percent. Current incumbent Vitaly Klitschko garnered more than 40 percent of the vote. (You can find out more on Gusovsky here)