 Voter turnout in the first round of the polling on June 16 was 69.8%.According to returns announced on June 17, Yeltsin won 35% of the vote; Zyuganov won 32%; Aleksandr Lebed, a populist ex-general, a surprisingly high 14.5%; liberal candidate Grigory Yavlinsky 7.4%; far-right nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 5.8%; and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev 0.5%.With no candidate securing an absolute majority, Yeltsin and Zyuganov went into a second round of voting.