2015 Ukrainian local elections

2015 Ukrainian local elections
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158,399 deputies[3] / 10,051 mayors[4]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Petro Poroshenko Bloc Batkivshchyna Our Land
Seats won 8,830 / 609 8,065 / 367 4,506 / 157
Percentage 5.63% / 6.11% 5.14% / 3.68% 2.87% / 1.58%
Results of the 2015 Ukrainian local elections by oblast.

On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine.[5] The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of mayors in cities with more than 90,000 residents where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes were held on 15 November 2015.[6][7]

Because of the ongoing conflict in East Ukraine and the February 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, local elections were not conducted throughout all of the administrative subdivisions of Ukraine.[8]

The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties,[9] followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party.[9] The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south.[10][11] The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast).[10][11] In the west, Svoboda improved its performance compared with previous year's parliamentary election.[10]

A total of 132 political parties took part in the elections.[12] The political parties contested for the 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional parliaments, more than 10,700 local councils and mayoral seats.[13] The voter turnout was 46.62% of the population.[14] During the second round, the voter turnout dropped to 34.08%.[6]

  1. ^ "Перелік рад, у яких не обрано міських, селищних, сільських голів" [The list of councils which did not elect city, town, village heads]. Local elections in Ukraine, 2015 (in Ukrainian). Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 12 November 2015.
  2. ^ UNIAN (27 March 2016). "Special mayor elections held in Kryvyi Rih".
  3. ^ "Candidates who are elected deputies of councils". Local elections in Ukraine, 2015 (in Ukrainian). Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Details on those who were elected as city, town, village chairmen". Local elections in Ukraine, 2015 (in Ukrainian). Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Local elections on October 25 to be held in 73 unified communities – CEC". Interfax-Ukraine. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference vtsrmeu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Interfax-Ukraine (2 October 2015). "Local election runoff in Ukraine's major cities should be held no later than Nov. 15". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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  9. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference October 25 local elections winners was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference 2daule15 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference cvk Ukrainian local elections, 2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Antonovych, Mariana; Wamberg Andersen, Johannes (2 October 2015). "Reform Watch - Oct. 1, 2015". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
    Melkozerova, Veronika (2 October 2015). "Rhinos, dill and hidden threats confuse voters in Kyiv". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  13. ^ Exit Polls Show Ukraine Divided For, Against Poroshenko Rule, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (27 October 2015)
    Ukraine's prime minister opts out of polls, Financial Times (24 October 2015)
    (in Ukrainian)Electoral lists of candidates in multimember constituencies within the regions of Ukraine in the local elections in 2015 Archived 30 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  14. ^ "ЦИК: Явка на местных выборах по Украине составила более 46%, наибольшая – на западе, наименьшая – на Донбассе". Интерфакс-Украина (in Ukrainian). 26 October 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2023.


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