Ukrainian local elections, 2015

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Ukrainian local elections, 2015

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Party Petro Poroshenko Bloc Fatherland Our Land
Seats won8,830 / 6098,065 / 3674,506 / 157
Percentage5.63% / 6.11%5.14% / 3.68%2.87% / 1.58%

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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] [8]

Contents

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. [9]

War in Donbass armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine

The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, protests by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, commonly collectively called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government. In the Donetsk People's Republic, from May 2014 until a change of the top leadership in August 2014, some of the top leaders were Russian citizens. According to the Ukrainian government, at the height of the conflict in mid-2014, Russian paramilitaries were reported to make up between 15% to 80% of the combatants.

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Annexation of Crimea by Russia from Ukraine in February–March 2014

The Crimean Peninsula was annexed by the Russian Federation, from Ukraine, in February–March 2014 and since then has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. The annexation followed a military intervention by Russia in Crimea that took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine.

Crimea peninsula in the Black Sea

Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop, and west of the Russian region of Kuban, from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch though linked by the Crimean Bridge. The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast, a narrow strip of land that separates a system of lagoons named Sivash from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to its west is Romania and to its south Turkey.

The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties, [10] followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party. [10] The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south. [11] [12] The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast). [11] [12] In the west, Svoboda improved its performance compared with previous year's parliamentary election. [11]

Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"

The Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", is a political party in Ukraine, formed on 27 August 2014. However, it has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko.

The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", often referred to as Batkivshchyna even in English, is a Ukrainian political party led by Yulia Tymoshenko. The party has been an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2008.

Our Land (Ukraine)

Our Land is a political party in Ukraine.

A total of 132 political parties took part in the elections. [13] The political parties contested for the 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional parliaments, more than 10,700 local councils and mayoral seats. [14] The voter turnout was 46.62% of the population. [15] During the second round, the voter turnout dropped to 34.08%. [6]

Background

Late January 2014 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine made a decision declaring that regardless of under which conditions the previous elections were conducted, regularly scheduled local elections must occur in October 2015. [16]

Constitutional Court of Ukraine

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is the sole body of constitutional jurisdiction in Ukraine. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine interprets the Constitution of Ukraine in terms of laws and other legal acts.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine asked the government to allocate 1.2 billion hryvnias (approx. 100 million USD) towards financing the election (on 9 July 2014) [17]

Ukrainian hryvnia currency in Ukraine

The hryvnia, sometimes hryvnya ; sign: ₴, code: UAH), has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. The hryvnia is subdivided into 100 kopiyky. It is named after a measure of weight used in medieval Kievan Rus'.

United States dollar Currency of the United States of America

The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its territories per the United States Constitution since 1792. In practice, the dollar is divided into 100 smaller cent (¢) units, but is occasionally divided into 1000 mills (₥) for accounting. The circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars.

The campaign for the elections started on 5 September 2015. [18] But since the start of the summer political advertising had begun to increase rapidly. [18] This was marred with a sharp rise of handouts by potential candidates. [18] Local issues were ignored by parties, who focused on national issues. [19] According to Depo.ua and the Committee of Voters of Ukraine political parties spend at least $82 million on campaigning. [20] They claim that during the last two months of the campaign political parties rented 75 percent of Ukraine's 20,000 billboards. [20]

More than 350,000 candidates (representing 132 political parties [13] or as an independent candidate) were electable for 168,450 positions of mayors of cities, villages and settlements and for deputies of village, settlement, city, city district, district and 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional councils. [14] [21] A candidate did not have to live in a constituency where she/he was electable. [21]

Elections in Crimea and Donbass

Because of the March 2014 unilateral annexation of Crimea by Russia, the elections could not be held in Crimea. [9] Under Russian jurisdiction local elections took place in Crimea on 14 September 2014. [22]

The War in Donbass (between Ukraine and the Russian government backed separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic) left large parts of south-east Ukraine not under Ukrainian control. [9] On 2 July 2015, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko ordered local DPR elections to be held on 18 October 2015 "in accordance with the Minsk II agreements". [23] According to Zakharchenko this move meant that the DNR had "independently start to implement the Minsk agreements". [23] Zakharchenko assured "the elections will take place 'on the basis of Ukraine's Law on temporary self-rule status of individual districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions' in so far as they are not at variance with the constitution and laws of the DPR". [23] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko responded (also on 2 July 2015) that if this Zakharchenko initiative to local DPR elections would be upheld this would be "extremely irresponsible and will have devastating consequences for the process of deescalation of tension in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions". [23] On 6 July 2015, the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) leader Igor Plotnitsky set elections for "mayors and regional heads" for 1 November 2015 in territory under his control. [24]

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Mariupol entry sign written in Ukrainian

On 6 October 2015, the DNR and LPR leadership postponed their planned elections to 21 February 2016. [25] This happened 4 days after a Normandy four meeting in which it was agreed that the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections in LPR and DPR controlled territories would be held in accordance to the February 2015 Minsk II agreement. [26] At the meeting President of France François Hollande stated that in order to hold these elections (in LPR and DPR controlled territories) it was necessary "since we need three months to organize elections" to held these elections in 2016. [26] Also during the meeting it is believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to use his influence to not allow the DPR and Luhansk People's Republic election to take place on 18 October 2015 and 1 November 2015. [26]

On 25 October 2015, the elections were not be held in certain government-held towns (in south-east Ukraine) close to the frontline because (it was believed in August 2015) there "voting may be dangerous to people's lives". [27] [28] These towns include Avdiivka, Marinka, Artemivsk and Kostiantynivka. [28] While in other towns near the frontline, like Mariupol, the elections were decided to be held. [28]

Changes in the law

Parties registered 365 days before the election and who did not changed their name 180 days before the election were allowed to participate in the elections. [29] On 14 July 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed a new law regarding the local elections in the country. [29] This law uprated the election threshold from 3% to 5% (in order to get any seats in the council a party has to score 5% of the total vote of the election [30] ). [21] It also introduced three [21] electoral systems for (these) local elections:

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The number of deputies elected to regional councils varies by population; the lowest is 64, while the highest is 120.
  1. Mayors and deputies of settlement and village councils directly elected under a majoritarian system; in a first-past-the-post system. [21]
  2. In cities with fewer than 90,000 voters Mayors are elected under a majoritarian system; in a first-past-the-post system. [31] Region, district, city, and city district councils are elected in multi-member constituencies meaning that for the elections for the city council or district council their territory is split into constituencies. [30] In these constituencies the parties nominated their candidates in closed party lists. [30] [32] Independent candidates can not take part in the elections in places bigger than a village or settlement. [32] [33] If a party passed the 5% election threshold the number of candidates from that party represented in a council will be established in accordance with the number of votes for a deputy in a certain constituency. [30] [31] Ballots have a check box for each party, rather than for individual candidates. [31] Political parties in Ukraine can only register with the Ministry of Justice if they can "demonstrate a base of support in two-thirds of Ukraine's Oblasts" (Ukraine's 24 primary administrative units). [21]
  3. If in a city with more than 90,000 voters (at the time of the elections this was 35 cities [8] ) the highest scoring mayoral candidate does not score over 50% of the votes + 1 vote a second round of the election will be held no later than 3 weeks after the election (in these elections that meant all second round elections on 15 November 2015). [7] [30] [34]

A proposition of the minimum number of deputies in a local council was to be 10 in places were the number of voters does not go above 500. [35] The maximum number of Deputies in a council is 80 in places with more than 1.5 million voters. [35] However, the proposition was not passed and the composition of local councils was preserved according to the law originally adopted on 14 July 2015. [36] According to the article 16 the composition of local council is defined by the number of voters which is set at a minimum 12 deputies for up to 1,000 voters and a maximum 120 deputies for over 2 million voters. [36] The composition of the Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Crimea is defined by the Constitution of Autonomous Republic of Crimea. [36]

A year after election voters can achieve a recall election if the collect as many signatures as voters. [37]

On the party list at least 30% have to be of the opposite sex as the other candidates. [30] [34] However, there are no legal sanctions if a party does not comply. [21]

Refugees of the War in Donbass and people who moved out of Crimea after the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea can not vote in the election if they are not registered as voters in the places they fled to. [21]

The new law also implemented election of starosta post [36] which was introduced with the 2015 administrative reform. With the creation of new communities (territorial hromadas), [38] which started in the summer of 2015, voters are able to elect new leadership.

Results

Results of the 2015 local election by raions (districts). Vibori do OMSU 2015 raioni ta mista.PNG
Results of the 2015 local election by raions (districts).

Election summary

In the election Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land won the largest number of seats, [10] followed by Opposition Bloc and Radical Party. [10]

Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in West and central Ukraine [11] and Kherson Oblast. [12] Fellow coalition partners in the second Yatsenyuk Government Self Reliance performed unconvincingly, with about 10 percent of the votes nationwide. [11] (Coalition member People's Front did not take part in the elections, at the time Fatherland was also a member of the coalition. [11] ) Former coalition member Radical Party trailed behind Petro Poroshenko Bloc and Fatherland. [10] [11]

Only Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Fatherland, Self Reliance and Radical Party won votes throughout the country. [39]

In Southern and Eastern Ukraine Opposition Bloc gained most votes, [11] but in Kharkiv Oblast, Revival gained most votes. [12]

In Western Ukraine Svoboda improved its performance compared with the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. [11]

In 29 cities a second round of mayoral elections was held on 15 November 2015. [8]

Mayor (selected cities)

Kiev

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Vitali Klitschko

In Kiev incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko and Boryslav Bereza competed in a second round of the mayoral election after Klitschko scored 40.5% of the vote and Bereza 8.8% in the first round. [40] Klitschko won this second round with 66.5%; Bereza gained 33.51% of the votes. [41]

Former mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko came third with 8.4%, followed by Volodymyr Bondarenko with 7.86% and Serhiy Husovsky with 7.7%. [40]

The voter turnout in the first round of the election was 41.87%. [40] [42] In the second round of the election the turnout was 28.35%. [6]

Kharkiv

In Kharkiv incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Kernes was re-elected in the first round of the election with 65.8% of the votes; with a voter turnout of 44.4%. [43] [44] Taras Sytenko came second with 12.31%, followed by Yuriy Sapronov with 5.08%. [43]

Dnipropetrovsk

Also in Dnipropetrovsk a second round of the mayoral election was held after Borys Filatov scored 37.94% and Oleksandr Vilkul 35.78% in the first round of the election. [45] Zahid Krasnov finished third with 12.42%. [45] In the second round Filatov was elected Mayor with 53.76% of the votes. [46] [47]

Odessa

In Odessa incumbent Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov defeated Oleksandr Borovyk with 52.9% against 25.7% in the first round of the mayoral election. [48] Former Mayor Eduard Gurwits came in third with 8.5% of the vote. [48]

Zaporizhia

In the mayoral election of Zaporizhia Volodymyr Buriak or Mykola Frolov gained most votes in the first round of the election. Buriak gained 22.9% and Frolov 18.9% of the vote. [49] [50] [51] [52] In the second round 58.48% of the votes supported Buriak as Mayor. [47]

Hence, incumbent Oleksandr Sin was not reelected after gaining (in the first round of the election) 9% of the vote. [49] [51] [52] [53]

Voter turnout

Turnout of the elections was 46.62% nationwide. [15] The highest participation was in Western Ukraine (around 50%), lowest was in the Donbass region (slightly above 30%). [15] The turnout was typical of rates across Europe. [54]

In the second round of the mayoral election the turnout was 34.08%. [6]

Conduct

Chairperson of a local electoral commission in Chernihiv on 15 November 2015. Vibori 15 listopada 2015 Chernigiv DVK 741009 DSCN4996.JPG
Chairperson of a local electoral commission in Chernihiv on 15 November 2015.

1.554 international observers to the elections were registered by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. [55] [56]

Council of Europe observers were positive about the electoral process. [57]

The OSCE observer mission was also positive about the electoral process, but it argued that the electoral legislation needed improvement. [58]

The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations observer mission qualified 15 November second round of mayoral elections as "generally held in line with international standards". [59]

Absence of elections in areas of the Donbass

No elections took place on 25 October 2015 in Mariupol, Krasnoarmiisk and Svatove because there the majority of elections commission's members refused to accept the election ballots because of faulty ballots. [60] In Mariupol allegations were made by pro-Euromaidan parties that the printing house owned by Rinat Akhmetov had manipulated the ballots to help Opposition Bloc (whose mayoral candidate Vadym Boychenko worked in a company owned by Akhmetov). [60]

On 6 November 2015 the local election committee set the date for local elections in Svatove for the next 27 December. [61]

On 10 November (2015) the Ukrainian parliament set the date for local elections in Krasnoarmiisk and Mariupol for the following 29 November. [62] In Mariupol Vadym Boychenko won this (mayoral) election (with a 36.49% voter turnout). [63] The ENEMO-mission in Krasnoarmiisk and Mariupol was mildly positive about the elections. [64]

Re-mayoral elections in Kryvy Rih

On 15 November Opposition Bloc Yuriy Vilkul was declared winner of the second round of the mayoral elections in Kryvyi Rih. [65] But runner-up Yuriy Myloboh of Self Reliance filed complaints about the violations of the electoral process. [66] The Verkhovna Rada (on 23 December 2015) set early elections of the mayor of Kryvyi Rih on 27 March 2016. [2] According to NGO's OPORA and Committee of Voters of Ukraine these re-elections were marked by large-scale bribery, the use of administrative resources and other violations. [67] Vilkul won the re-election with 74.18% of the vote; followed by Semen Semenchenko for Self Reliance with 10.92%. [68] Voter turnout on 27 March 2016 was 55.77%. [69]

Notes

  1. ↑ Repeat elections in 82 locations throughout Ukraine have been scheduled for 29 November 20 December, 27 December 3 January, 10 January, and 17 January. [1] And early mayoral elections in Kryvyi Rih on 27 March 2016. [2]

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