KIEV: "Chocolate King" Petro Poroshenko has won Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday with an absolute majority, exit polls showed.

Poroshenko won 55.9 percent of the vote, ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko 12.9 percent of the vote, and Oleh Lyashko, 8 percent, according to the national exit poll.

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