2010 Crimean parliamentary election

2010 Crimean parliamentary election

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All 100 seats in the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea 51 seats needed for a majority

Party Vote % Seats +/– Party of Regions 50.44 80 +36 KPU 7.65 5 −4 Qurultai-Rukh 7.24 5 −3 Soyuz 5.44 5 −5 Russian Unity 4.15 3 New Strong Ukraine 3.75 2 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Chairman of the Council before Chairman of the Council after Anatoliy Hrytsenko Party of Regions Vladimir Konstantinov Party of Regions

The 2010 Crimean parliamentary election was held on 31 October 2010 as a part of the general 2010 Ukrainian local elections. Unlike the previous election to the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, they were conducted on the mixed-member proportional representation system. In order to gain representation in the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a party or bloc had to garner at least 3 percent of the total vote. The Party of Regions won the elections with an overwhelming majority. ^[1] This was the last parliamentary election in Crimea before annexed by Russia.

Background

Prior to 2009 amendments to the Crimean Constitution, the parliament's term was limited to four years. It has since been increased to five after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed the amendments into law in April 2009. ^[2]

New elections where set for October 31, 2010 by the Supreme Council on August 4, 2010. In June 2010 the parliament had failed to fix the election date on October 31. The resolution was voted against by a number of coalition factions, including the ruling For Yanukovych! electoral bloc (that included the Party of Regions). ^[3] Early July 2010, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) supported by the Party of Regions’ initiative, announced local elections on the last day of October 2010. ^[3]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Party-list	Constituency	Total
	Party of Regions	357,030	50.44	32	48	80
	Communist Party of Ukraine	54,172	7.65	5	0	5
	Qurultai-Rukh	51,253	7.24	5	0	5
	Soyuz	38,514	5.44	3	2	5
	Russian Unity	29,343	4.15	3	0	3
	Strong Ukraine	26,515	3.75	2	0	2
	Batkivshchyna	19,589	2.77	0	0	0
	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine	12,614	1.78	0	0	0
	Party of Pensioners of Ukraine	11,133	1.57	0	0	0
	Front for Change	8,281	1.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	7,268	1.03	0	0	0
	People's Party	4,563	0.64	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Ukraine	2,909	0.41	0	0	0
	Party of Greens of Ukraine	2,493	0.35	0	0	0
	All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War"	2,030	0.29	0	0	0
	Justice Party	1,822	0.26	0	0	0
	Greens	1,699	0.24	0	0	0
	Peasant Party of Ukraine	1,396	0.20	0	0	0
	Motherland  [ uk ]	1,395	0.20	0	0	0
	Svoboda	1,361	0.19	0	0	0
	New Politics	1,291	0.18	0	0	0
	United Centre	1,278	0.18	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Social Democratic Party	1,240	0.18	0	0	0
	Union of Left Forces	1,177	0.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian People's Party	1,114	0.16	0	0	0
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine	980	0.14	0	0	0
	People's Power Party	934	0.13	0	0	0
	New Generation Party	904	0.13	0	0	0
	Socialist Ukraine	878	0.12	0	0	0
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)	803	0.11	0	0	0
	People's Labor Union of Ukraine	745	0.11	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor"	743	0.10	0	0	0
	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists	702	0.10	0	0	0
	Democratic Party of Ukraine	625	0.09	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine	624	0.09	0	0	0
	Hromada	452	0.06	0	0	0
	European Party of Ukraine	432	0.06	0	0	0
Against all		57,552	8.13	–	–	–
Total		707,854	100.00	50	50	100
Valid votes		707,854	97.01
Invalid/blank votes		21,794	2.99
Total votes		729,648	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,522,000	47.94
Source: Government of Crimea

References

1. Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010)
2. "Yushchenko signed a law increasing the legislative term of the Crimean parliament" (in Ukrainian). Korrespondent.net. April 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
3. Ukraine’s Crimea to hold parliamentary elections on October 31, ITAR-TASS (August 4, 2010)

External links

• Election commission of Crimea