The gap between opposition leader Viktor...

According to countrywide statistics, Yanukovych gained about 48% of the vote, and Tymoshenko garnered some 46%, with over 95% of the ballots counted.

Meanwhile, preliminary data show that most of the residents of the country"s eight southern and eastern regions and the Crimean peninsula voted for Yanukovych, while 16 Ukraine"s western and central regions and the capital, Kiev, supported Tymoshenko.

Yanukovych, the leader of the pro-Russian Party of Regions, received 80% of the vote in the Crimea, 84% in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, 91% in the Donetsk region, and 89% in the Lugansk region.

Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of the 2004 Orange Revolution, gained 87%, 88%, 84% and 72% in the Ivano-Frankivsk, the Ternopil, the Lviv and the Vinnitsy regions, respectively. She was also supported by 65% of the voters in the country"s capital, Kiev.

Some analysts say a recent decision by Yushchenko to declare late Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera the

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