The 2020 Ukrainian local elections took place on Sunday 25 October 2020.Ukraine holds local elections 2020 (updated)

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(25 October 2020)Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25

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(15 July 2020) In the election, deputies of district councils and rural townships were elected and elections for city mayors were held. In practice this will mean that most voters had to fill out four ballots.Ukraine prepares for nationwide local elections

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(2 October 2020) On 15, 22 and 29 November and 6 December 2020 a second round of mayoral elections was held in cities with more than 75,000 voters where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes.Mayors will be re-elected in seven cities on Sunday

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(13 November 2020) Due to the

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and loss of government control of parts of the

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and

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, no elections were held in parts of the two oblasts and in the

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the highest number of seats in the election was won by

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with 17.59% of local deputies nominated in the election by this party. Second place was for

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with 12.39% of deputies and in third place was Opposition Platform — For Life with 11.75%. For the Future gained 11.42% of the total number of seats, European Solidarity 10.73% and Our Land 5.13%.The CEC showed the top 10 parties that won the most seats in the election

(18 November 2020) Independent candidates won 661 mayoral elections. Of the remaining elected 733 mayors 30.74% of them were Servant of the People candidates, 12.43% represented For the Future, 7.24% Fatherland, 7.1% Opposition Platform — For Life, 6.15% Our Land and 5.6% European Solidarity. Turnout (on 25 October) was reported at 36.88% by the Central Election Commission, down from almost 47% in the 2015 local elections.Явка виборців на місцевих виборах 25 жовтня 2020 року склала 36,88 %
''Voter turnout in the local elections on 25 October 2020 was 36.88%'',

(26 October 2020) President

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's party, Servant of the People, suffered setbacks in major cities across the country, including the capital

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; meanwhile, pro-European and pro-Russian parties made gains. In Ukraine's largest cities, not only Servant of the People but all national parties were beaten by local parties of individual city mayors.Ukrainian local elections: Zelenskyy fairytale is over
by Anders Åslund,

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(26 October 2020)

Overview

The estimated number of voters is 27.2 million people. The number of voters on the lists at polling stations is estimated at 28.1 million people and the number of polling stations was more than 29,000.

Campaign

Late June 2020 the first street political advertising appeared on Ukrainian streets, although the election campaign for the election officially starts on 5 September.Campaign false start: who is already advertised in the Dnipro
Civil movement "Chesno" (26 August 2020) According to Ukrainian law, political campaigning outside election campaign periods is prohibited. On 15 July 2020,

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set the election date to 25 October 2020.Ukraine's parliament approves date for local elections

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(15 July 2020)

Electoral system

For the first time in Ukrainian local elections, all candidates had to pay a cash deposit to be able to take part in the elections. The size of this deposit depends on the size of the population of the place where the election is held. The lowest deposit were for candidates for mayors of

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(19,000 hryvnias), Nikopol (20,000 hryvnias) and

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(24,000 hryvnias); while the highest was for the mayoral candidates of

(445,000 hryvnias),

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

(219,000 hryvnias), and

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(157,000 hryvnias). On all candidate lists, two out of every five candidates had to be female. Candidate could only be self-nominated in places with a population of less than 10,000 voters, in all other cases candidates had to be nominated by

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. In the mayoral elections in cities with fewer than 75,000 voters mayors were elected under a majoritarian system; in a first-past-the-post system.Surprises of local elections: what you need to know in order not to "break your brain" - 2

(19 October 2020) In the other Ukrainian cities a candidate had to receive more than 50% of all votes cast to win in the first round of the election. If not, the two candidates who received the largest number of votes faced of in a second round, the candidate that receive a simple majority in the second round (no longer necessarily more than 50%) was elected mayor. November 15, November 22 and November 29 are the dates of the second round of mayoral elections in cities with more than 75,000 voters. (On 29 November the second round of the mayoral election of

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only.) After Yuriy Vilkul redrew himself from the second round of the mayoral election in Kryvyi Rih this second round was postponed to 6 December 2020.Elections of the mayor of Kryvyi Rih will be held on December 6

(17 November 2020) In populated places with up to 10 thousand voters the town was divided into constituencies, from 2 to 4 deputies of the local council were elected from each constituency under the relative majority system. In the other elections voters had to fill in two types of candidate lists - one for the whole city (district or region) and a separate for their electoral district (in which they had to write down the number of their favourite candidate themselves). The number 1 on the party list of the whole city was guaranteed a place in the local council if the party passed the election threshold. The election will was held with a specific

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system. In order to benefit from this open list system, a candidate in an electoral district needed to gain 25% of the total number of votes received by all parties that did overcame the electoral threshold divided by the number of seats in the local council minus the seats won by the number 1's on the party list of the whole city. The elections had a 5%

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. In practice most voters had to fill out four ballots. Voters in

received only two ballots, for the election of the

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and the

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election. In

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, Kryvyi Rih,

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and

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voters received an additional fifth ballot for candidates for the district councils in the city. Deputies of local councils will receive no compensation for their work.

Non-voting areas

Due to the

, no elections in the

and

(to the self-proclaimed

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and

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) also means elections were not held in certain parts of these provinces. There were also no elections for the Donetsk Oblast Council and Luhansk Oblast Council as their functions are currently being performed by civil–military administrations.

Results

Due to the new electoral system in which the elections were held, voting officials and the NGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine warned that the official publication of the election results would probably take several days.

Exit polls

Exit polls indicated that president

's party,

, had suffered setbacks in Ukraine's major cities, including the capital

; it appeared that only in Zelensky's hometown Kryvyi Rih Servant of the People won the election with a slight margin, although they lost the mayoral election there. The overall picture emerging from the exit polls was that pro-European and pro-Russian parties had appeared to have made gains, but that in Ukraine's major cities national parties had been beaten by local parties of individual city mayors.

Election summary

According to the results as published by the

, the highest number of seats in the election was won by

with 17.59% of local deputies nominated in the election by this party. Second place was for

with 12.39% of deputies and in third place was Opposition Platform — For Life with 11.75%. For the Future gained 11.42% of the total number of seats, European Solidarity 10.73% and Our Land 5.13%. In total, 110 political parties received their representatives in local councils at various levels. Some of these were won by the

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Svoboda with 2.61%, Ukrainian Strategy with 1.72%,

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1,66% and Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko with 1.62%. Almost half of all seats was won by parties that did not win seats in the

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.Party measurement of the results of local elections in 2020

(23 November 2020) According to calculations made by Sociological group "RATING" 49% of all voters voted for local parties/non-parliamentary parties. Of the remaining voters 14.5% voted for Servant of the People, 13.7% for European Solidarity and 12.5% for Opposition Platform — For Life.Political Trends November 2020

(7 December 2020) Most mayors elected were independent candidates, 661 nonpartisan politicians were elected mayor of a village, town or city. Of the remaining elected 733 mayors 30.74% of them were Servant of the People candidates, 12.43% represented For the Future, 7.24% Fatherland, 7.1% Opposition Platform — For Life, 6.15% Our Land, 5.6% European Solidarity, 3.83% Ukrainian Strategy and last came the party Trust with 3.14% (with its 23 mayors).Mayoral and village mayoral elections: CEC shows ranking of winning parties

(18 November 2020) Non-parliamentary parties, primarily the strictly local parties of city mayors, successfully performed in Ukraine's major cities. But in the elections of regional councils, parties represented in the

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(Ukraine's parliament) still dominated. Servant of the People showed its best results in

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in the north of the country, as well as in the historical regions

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and

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. The results of the party in large cities and regional centers, in the regions of Galicia and in the

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were weaker. However, the pro-presidential party will be represented in all regional councils, and in the absolute majority of local councils in all regions of the country. European Solidarity did well in

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and central Ukraine. Opposition Platform — For Life did well in

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and

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, although the local parties of city mayors (in particular in

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and Sloviansk) cost them support compared with its predecessor Opposition Bloc in the 2015 Ukrainian local elections. Fatherland showed its best results in Central and Northern Ukraine, as well as in a number of western regions. For the Future expectedly won the elections in

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, and also led its deputies to a number of regional councils in Ukraine's western and central regions. Proposition successfully performed only where it was represented by the current mayors of cities - in

and Mykolaiv. The same can be said for Svoboda, which won victory in cities where it had acting mayors, but compared with the 2015 local elections the party's electoral influence this time was limited to Western Ukraine. The parliamentary party

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had some local success, having led its factions to the Lviv Oblast Council, to the city councils of

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, a number of other city councils, including even in the

Voter turnout

The nationwide turnout of the elections was 36.88% nationwide. The highest participation was in

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(ranging from 40% to 45%), lowest was in

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and

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(in all three slightly above 30%).Ukraine's western regions were most active in local elections - CEC

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(28 October 2020) During the 2015 Ukrainian local elections nationwide voter turnout had been 46.62% of the population.
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and/or other health issues had prevented them from voting, 19% had not been in her/his place of voting, 15% were employed and working on election day, 14% did not know for whom to vote for and 12% of non-voters simply had no interest in the election.Did not go to the polls: every 5th because of health

(26 October 2020) The voter turnout at the second round of mayoral elections held in

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, Kramatorsk, Ukrainka,

Sumy Sumy (, , ) is a city in northeastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel (river), Psel River and has a population of making it the 23rd-largest in the country. The city ...

and

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on 15 November was on average 24%.CEC: Voter turnout in second round of mayoral elections is 24%

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine (), or Ukrinform (), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence The lowest turnout was recorded in Sumy with 19.02%.Turnout in second round of mayoral elections in Ukraine was 24% at 20:00 - CEC

(16 November 2020)

Mayoral elections (selected cities)

Kyiv

, incumbent

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. In the election

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( Opposition Platform — For Life) finished second after he secured 68,757 votes, Serhiy Prytula (

) gained 56,900 votes, Oleksiy Kucherenko ( Batkivshchyna) 45,823 votes, Iryna Vereshchuk (

) 39,321 votes and Andriy Palchevsky 38,360 votes. Hennadiy Kernes 2020

Kharkiv

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

, incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Kernes was re-elected in the first round of the election with 60.34% of the votes.Kharkiv, the votes in the mayoral election were counted: who wins and whether there will be a second round

(4 November 2020) Kernes had been nominated by his new political party Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv. Oleksandr Feldman for Opposition Platform — For Life finished second in the election with 14.32%. Third place went to incumbent Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Oleksiy Kucher of

with 7.24%. Voter turnout was 31.3%.Heir to Kernes

(4 November 2021) During his re-election, Kernes himself was not in Kharkiv and he had not appeared in public since 23 August 2020, after becoming infected with

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.Kernes was re-elected mayor of Kharkiv - a voter

(4 November 2020) On election day Kernes was (since 17 September 2020) hospitalized in

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. At the time of his election his party assured that Kernes was about to return to Kharkiv to fulfil his duties as Mayor. Kernes died of complications from COVID-19 on 17 December 2020.Kharkiv mayor Kernes dies

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BBC Ukrainian (17 December 2020) On 31 October 2021, a snap mayoral election in Kharkiv was held to determinate Kernes successor."Servant of the people" will not nominate a candidate for mayor of Kharkiv

(6 September 2021) The election commission declared Kernes fellow party member

Ihor Terekhov Ihor Oleksandrovych Terekhov (; born 14 January 1967) is a Ukrainian politician who is serving as the mayor of Kharkiv since 11 November 2021. He ascended to the mayoralty on 24 December 2020 following Hennadiy Kernes' death due to COVID-19 co ...

the winner of the election with 50.66% of the votes. Mikhail Dobkin finished the race in second place with 28.4% of the vote.Kharkiv mayoral election: the court denied OPORA's lawsuits, although it acknowledged differences

(9 November 2021) The candidate from European Solidarity, Oleksandr Skoryk, finished third with 5,36% and all other candidates received less than 5% of the vote. In this by-election voter turnout was 28.32%.

Odesa

, incumbent Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov (nominated by the Truth and Deeds(party) failed to be re-elected in the first round of the election. In the first round Trukhanov received 38% of the votes against Opposition Platform — For Life candidate Mykola Skoryk's 19%.Ukrainian local elections: City-by-city guide to this weekend's runoff votes

(13 November 2020) (In the first round) Petro Obukhov of European Solidarity took third place with 11,5% of the votes and fourth spot was occupied by of

with 10,09%. Trukhanov and Skoryk took part in the final round of the election. Trukhanov defeated Skoryk in the second round of the mayoral election on 15 November 2020, 54.28% of the voters voted for him.

Dnipro

, a second round of the mayoral election was held between incumbent mayor Borys Filatov and which was won by Filatov with 80.61% of the votes. In the first round of the election Filatov (nominated by

) had gained 46.41% of the votes, Krasnov (nominated by Community Power) 13.15%, Oleksandr Vilkul (Bloc Vilkul — Ukrainian perspective) 12.95%, Serhiy Nikitin ( Opposition Platform — For Life) 9.15% and (

) 8.71%.

Oblasts

Cherkasy Oblast

Conduct

The day after the election (26 October 2020)

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stated that the election had been "calm and well-organized". It also stated that a non-official poll that had been called for by president

had created "some illegal political advantage" for Zelensky's party,

.OSCE: elections in Ukraine were held without violations, but "SE poll" played into the hands of "servants"

(26 October 2020) The NGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine stated that the second round of mayoral elections on 22 November were "held in accordance with democratic standards" but that in five cities of eleven voting cities its observer had uncovered attempts at bribing voters.Second round of mayoral elections in some cities on Nov 22 held in accordance with standards, but technologies of voters' bribery used in five cities - CVU

(23 November 2020)

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