Volodymyr Zelensky, (main picture, reacting after hearing the exit polls at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine) whose only previous political role was playing the president on television, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko (pictured inset) by taking 73 percent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by several think tanks. Poroshenko lost to the television star across all regions of the country, including in the west where he traditionally enjoyed strong support. It was an extraordinary outcome to a campaign that started as a joke but struck a chord with voters frustrated by poverty, corruption and a five-year war that has claimed some 13,000 lives. The 41-year-old star of TV series "Servant of the People" will now take the helm of a country of 45 million people beset by challenges and having run on the vaguest of political platforms.

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