Ukraine is divided into 225 electoral districts for election organization and representation in the Verkhovna Rada. Each of the country's oblasts (regions) are divided into multiple districts, with a single MP representing each. Before the number of raions were reduced in 2020, each electoral district would contain several raions or a medium-sized city or a part of a large city. They consist of electoral precincts (usually about one hundred of them in each electoral district), which are territorial units of election organization one level lower, and which have the size of several communities or village councils in rural areas or several neighborhoods in cities.
As a result of the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, starting from 2014 elections have not been held in any of the electoral districts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (constituencies number 1-10, 224 and 225), in some electoral districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (collectively known as Donbas) completely (constituencies number 41-44, 53–56, 61, 104 and 108–111) or partly (counties number 45, 46, 51, 52, 59, 60, 105-107 and 112–114).[1] As a result, there were vacant seats in the 8th and 9th convocations of the Verkhovna Rada, which should have been occupied by majority MPs from the electoral districts in Crimea and in Donbas.
- ^ "Без окупованих територій: ЦВК затвердила перелік виборчих округів" [Without occupied territories: CEC approved the list of electoral districts] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainska Pravda. 13 February 2019. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.