Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014

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Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014
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423 of 450 seats of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Yuriy Lutsenko crop.jpeg Arseniy Yatsenyuk 2011 (cropped).jpg AndriiSadovyi.JPG
Leader Yuri Lutsenko Arseniy Yatsenyuk Andriy Sadovyi
Party Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front Self Reliance
Last electionNewNewNew
Seats won1328233
Seat changeNewNewNew
Percentage21.8%22.1%11.0%
SwingNewNewNew
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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Leader Yuriy Boyko Oleh Lyashko Yulia Tymoshenko
Party Opposition Bloc Radical Party Fatherland
Last electionNew1.1%, 1 seat25.5%, 101 seats
Seats won292219
Seat changeNewIncrease2.svg 21Decrease2.svg 82
Percentage9.4%7.4%5.7%
SwingNewIncrease2.svg 6.4 ppDecrease2.svg 19.9 pp
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Winning party in each constituency in party-list (above) and single-member voting (below)
Prime Minister before election

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

Prime Minister-designate

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

A snap election of the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.

A snap election is an election called earlier than expected.

Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian Parliament

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada is composed of 450 deputies, who are presided over by a chairman (speaker). The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kiev.

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Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election. [1] The July breakup of ruling coalition gave him the right to dissolve the parliament, so on 25 August 2014 he announced the early election. [2]

Petro Poroshenko Ukrainian businessman and politician

Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko is the fifth and current President of Ukraine, in office since 2014. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, Poroshenko headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank.

President of Ukraine Ukrainian head of state

The President of Ukraine is the Ukrainian head of state. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. The president is directly elected by the citizens of Ukraine for a five-year term of office, limited to two terms consecutively.

The voting was not provided in the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. The voting also did not reach significant parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because of the ongoing War in Donbass. [3] Because of this, 27 out of the 450 seats in the 8th Verkhovna Rada remained unfilled.

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.

Autonomous Republic of Crimea administrative division of Ukraine since 1992, not occupying the whole peninsula [see Q15966495 for Russian subdivision proclaimed in 2014]

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is, de jure, an autonomous republic of Ukraine encompassing most of Crimea, though, de facto, in 2014 it was annexed by Russia and incorporated, as the Republic of Crimea, as a Russian federal subject.

Sevastopol Place in City with special status, Disputed:

Sevastopol is the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and a major Black Sea port. The city is administered as a federal city of the Russian Federation following Crimea's annexation by Russia in 2014, though Ukraine and most of the UN member countries continue to regard Sevastopol as a city with special status within Ukraine.

This election can be called a realigning. Ruling in 2010-2014, the Party of Regions did not participate in this election, while its informal successor Opposition Bloc showed modest result with only 9.43%. For the first time since Ukrainian independence, the Communist Party of Ukraine gained no parliamentary representation. Four newly created parties got the highest support in this election: Petro Poroshenko Bloc (formed in July 2014 by Poroshenko's supporters), People's Front (split from Fatherland in August 2014), Self Reliance (registered in 2012) and Opposition Bloc (formed in September 2014 by a group of the former Party of Regions members).

In political science and political history, a realigning election is a set of sharp changes in issues, party leaders, regional and demographic bases of power of political parties, and the structure or rules of the political system, such as voter eligibility or financing. The changes result in a new political power structure that lasts for decades, replacing an older dominant coalition. Scholars frequently invoke the concept in American elections and occasionally those of other countries. US examples include the 1896 presidential election, when the Republican Party (GOP) became dominant, and the 1932 election when the Democratic Party became dominant.

Party of Regions Russophone political party of Ukraine

The Party of Regions is a pro-Russia political party of Ukraine created in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Ukraine between 2006 and 2014. Since the February 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the party has not competed in elections and most of its representatives have left the party to continue their careers in other parties. Best known former party members are former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych; both fled to Russia in February 2014.

Opposition Bloc is a Ukrainian political party that was founded in 2014 as six parties that did not endorse Euromaidan merged. Legally, the party was created by renaming the lesser-known party Leading force.

Since the parallel voting system was used, the allocation of seats is not proportional. For example, the winner in party-list voting (22.12%) People's Front got second faction with 82 seats, while Petro Poroshenko Bloc took 123 seats with 21.82% of votes.

Parallel voting describes a mixed electoral system where voters in effect participate in two separate elections for a single chamber using different systems, and where the results in one election have little or no impact on the results of the other.

Peoples Front (Ukraine) Ukrainian political party

People's Front is a political party in Ukraine founded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleksandr Turchynov in 2014.

The work of the new parliament started on 27 November 2014. [4] On the same day, five factions formed the "European Ukraine" coalition: Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Radical Party and Fatherland. [5] On 2 December the second Yatsenyuk government was approved. [6]

8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation is the current convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The 8th convocation meets at the Verkhovna Rada building in Kiev, having begun its term on November 27, 2014 following the last session of the 7th Verkhovna Rada. Its term will last five years and is scheduled to close its last session on November 27, 2019.

Union "Self Reliance" or "Self Help" is a political party in Ukraine. It is led by the incumbent mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi. It was founded on 29 December 2012, and identifies with the ideology of "Christian morality and common sense." The name of the party is similar to the name of the NGO, founded by Sadovyi in 2004. The party won 33 seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko national political party in Ukraine

The Radical Party, whose official name is the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko and formerly known as the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party, is a political party in Ukraine which was registered in September 2010.

Background

According to the election law of November 2011, elections to the Verkhovna Rada must take place at least every five years. [7] [8] That law came into effect with the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. If the Rada had sat for the maximum allotted time, the next parliamentary election would have occurred on 29 October 2017. [7] Despite this, the president-elect Petro Poroshenko said that he wanted to hold early parliamentary elections following his victory in the presidential election on 25 May 2014. [1] At 26 June session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Poroshenko said that he hoped to hold parliamentary elections in October 2014, portraying this as "the most democratic way". [9] [nb 1]

The parliamentary coalition that supported the Yatsenyuk Government, formed in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and of the Euromaidan movement, was dissolved on 24 July. [11] If no new coalition formed within thirty days, President Poroshenko would become entitled to dissolve the Rada and to call early parliamentary elections. [11] On the same day as the dissolution, the Sovereign European Ukraine faction submitted a bill to the Rada that called for elections to take place on 28 September 2014. [12]

In an interview with Ukrainian television channels on 14 August, Poroshenko justified early elections because the Rada refused to recognise the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as terrorist organisations. [13] The two republics, situated in the eastern Ukrainian region of the Donbass, originated in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine respectively, and have been fighting Ukrainian government forces in the War in Donbass. [14] President Poroshenko said: "I don't know how to work with a parliament in which a huge number [of deputies], whole factions, make up 'the fifth column' controlled from abroad [referring to Russia]. And this danger is only increasing". [13] He also said that new elections "are the best and the most efficient form of lustration of not only the parliament but also the political forces".

Poroshenko announced on 25 August that he had called for elections to the Rada to take place on 26 October 2014. [2] [15] In his accompanying television address, he portrayed the elections as necessary to "purify the Rada of the mainstay of [former president] Viktor Yanukovych". These deputies, Poroshenko said, "clearly do not represent the people who elected them". [16] Poroshenko also painted these Rada deputies as responsible for "the [January 2014] Dictatorship laws that took the lives of the Heavenly Hundred". [16] Poroshenko also stated that many of the (then) current MPs were "direct sponsors and accomplices or at least sympathizers of the militants/separatists". [16]

Electoral system

The Verkhovna Rada has 450 members, elected to a five-year term in parallel voting, with 225 members elected in single-member constituencies using FPTP system and 225 members elected by proportional representation (closed list) in a single nationwide constituency using the largest remainder method with 5% threshold. [17] Parties are not allowed to form electoral blocs (in contrast to 1998-2007 elections). Attempts to return to proportional representation with open party lists and electoral blocs were failed. [18]

The division into 225 electoral districts was the same as at the 2012 election. The voting was organized only in 198 of them.

Electoral districts Viborchi okrugi 2014 Vibori VRU.PNG
Electoral districts

Non-voting areas

The voting was impossible to provide on the territories that was not under government control. Particularly, because of Russian occupation of Crimea there was no voting in all 10 districts in Autonomous Republic of Crimea and 2 in Sevastopol. The voting in Donbass was provided partially. The democratic watchdog OPORA estimated that 4.6 million Ukrainians were unable to vote: 1.8 million in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, 1.6 million in Donetsk Oblast and 1.2 million in Luhansk Oblast. [19]

Light green coloured parts of the Donetsk Oblast took part in the Ukrainian parliamentary election, purple coloured parts in the 2 November Donetsk People's Republic elections and yellow parts took part in neither. Donetsk oblast elections 2014 autumn total ENG.PNG
Light green coloured parts of the Donetsk Oblast took part in the Ukrainian parliamentary election, purple coloured parts in the 2 November Donetsk People's Republic elections and yellow parts took part in neither.

Crimea

About 1.8 million of eligible voters live in Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, that is 5% of the whole number of voters in Ukraine. Ukrainian government lost control over the region in March 2014 during the Crimean crisis. Since that time no legitimate elections are provided there. In the 2014 legislative election Crimean voters had ability to vote in any other region for party-lists in the single nationwide constituency, but they were unable to vote for candidates in single-member constituencies. [20]

Donbass

"Donbass" is an unofficial name of 2 the most eastern Ukrainian oblasts: Donetsk and Luhansk. About 5 million of eligible voters live there, that is 14% of the whole number of voters in Ukraine. After an active phase of War in Donbass in the summer 2014 and September ceasefire, roughly a half of the region remained to be controlled by pro-Russian separatists. On the day before the election CEC stated that there was no ability to provide the voting in the captured areas. [3] Thus, full-fledged voting was provided only in 8 districts of 32. Other 9 districts were split by the front line for controlled and not controlled areas, so voting was provided there only partly. In 2 of them only slight number of polling station was opened: in 53rd district only 9% of voters were able to vote and in 45th district only 2%. In spite of this, the elections in these single-member constituencies were recognized as successful, and the winners (Oleh Nedava and Yukhym Zvyahilsky) got mandates. To the other 15 districts ballots were not transferred at all.

Donetsk Oblast Luhansk Oblast Total
Districts with full-fledged voting718
Districts with partial voting549
Districts with no voting9615

Instead of this election, on the captured territories separatists organized so-called "Donbass general elections" on 2 November, that were a violation of Minsk agreement and were not recognized by the world community. [21]

Campaign

In the 225 electoral districts some 3,321 candidates participated, out of which 2,018 were independent candidates. [22] 52 political parties nominated candidates. [22] 147 candidates withdrew after the 1 October candidate registration deadline. [23]

In the election campaign the parties positions on foreign relations and the War in Donbass could be roughly divided into two groups. [24] The first group consisted of pro-European parties that advocated to end the War in Donbass by use of force and consisted of Fatherland Party, Civic Position, Radical Party and People's Front (this party was ambiguous about use of force). [24] Svoboda also wanted to end the War in Donbass by use of force. [24] The party Petro Poroshenko Bloc was the only pro-European party that wanted to end the War in Donbass by a peaceful solution. [24] The second group was Strong Ukraine and Opposition Bloc who were considered pro-Russian and they advocated to end the War in Donbass by a peaceful solution. [24] The Communist Party of Ukraine (according to political scientist Tadeusz A. Olszański) "effectively supports the separatist rebellion". [24]

According to Olszański Radical Party and the Communists were the only left-wing parties. [24]

Registered parties and candidates

Nationwide party lists

On 26 September 2014 the Central Election Commission of Ukraine finished registering the nationwide party lists. A total of 29 parties participated in the election. [25] Parties appeared on the ballot in the following order: [26]

  1. Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko
  2. Solidarity of Ukrainian Women
  3. Internet Party of Ukraine
  4. Opposition Bloc
  5. People's Front
  6. 5.10
  7. All-Ukrainian Agrarian Union "ZASTUP"
  8. Revival
  9. New Politics
  10. United Country
  11. People's Power
  12. Svoboda
  13. National Democratic Party of Ukraine
  14. Communist Party of Ukraine
  15. Self Reliance Party
  16. Ukraine is United
  17. Right Sector
  18. Ukraine of the Future
  19. Liberal Party of Ukraine
  20. Party of Greens of Ukraine
  21. Green Planet
  22. Petro Poroshenko Bloc
  23. Strength and Honour
  24. Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
  25. Strong Ukraine
  26. Fatherland
  27. Civil Position
  28. Bloc of Ukrainian Left Forces
  29. Ukrainian Civil Movement
Forming of political coalitions

On 2 September Vitaliy Kovalchuk (the parliamentary leader) of UDAR stated that since his party and Petro Poroshenko Bloc had agreed to "joint participation in parliamentary elections" on 29 March 2014 the two parties were "in discussion" about "the format" for how to do so in these elections. On 15 September it became clear that 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list would be filled by members of UDAR and that UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko is at the top of this list, Klitschko vowed not to resign as incumbent Mayor of Kiev. [27] [28]

7 September party congress of Civil Position decided that the party would participate in the election on a partly list with members of Democratic Alliance. [29]

On 10 September, the Fatherland Party split because party leaders Yatsenyuk and Turchynov became founding members of the new party People's Front. [30]

The biggest party in the previous 2012 parliamentary elections, Party of Regions, chose not to participate in the election because of a perceived lack of legitimacy (of the election), because not every resident of the Donbas could vote. [31] Individual members of the Party of Regions would take part in the election as candidates of the party Opposition Bloc. [32] According to Yuriy Boyko, who is heading the party's election list, Opposition Bloc does not represent parties, but consists only of individual politicians. [32]

Results

The counting of votes was greatly delayed: Central Electoral Commission announced that all ballots were counted on 10 November only. [33] The announcement of the final result for 38th electoral district was delayed till mid-November because of challenging the results in a court. [34]

Voter turnout

Voter turnout throughout Ukraine. Voter turnout - Ukraine - 2014-10-26 20-00.svg
Voter turnout throughout Ukraine.

In 2014 election the number of participated voters was much less than in 2012 (16,052,228 down from 20,797,206). [35] The main reason of this decrease was impossibility to organize voting in some regions. That is why official turnout was calculated by division by the number of people who live in areas where voting was provided only (due to CEC it is 30,921,218). [35] So, official voter turnout was 51.91%. Anyway, this percent is less than in 2012, when turnout was 57.43%.

The turnout level had obvious geographical differences. The highest turnout (60-70%) was registered in western regions (except Zakarpattia and Chernivtsi Oblast), the level of turnout in central regions was average (54-58%) and in southern and eastern regions it was quite low (40-48%). The turnout in two oblasts of Donbass (or more exactly in the parts of these oblasts where the voting was provided) was 32% - the lowest in the country. [36]

Previously Donbass region displayed high turnout for every election. Party of regions that had plenitude of the power over this region until 2014 Ukrainian revolution artificially increased voter turnout there by use of management reserves and falsifications. The 2014 election was the end of this artificial increase. One more reason of low turnout in Donbass as well as in other south-eastern regions was a feeling of significant part of inhabitants that no party represented their interests. [37]

Summary results

Seat composition of the Verkhovna Rada after the 2014 election Verkhovna Rada seat composition 2014 election.svg
Seat composition of the Verkhovna Rada after the 2014 election
e  •  d   ←Summary of the 26 October 2014 Verkhovna Rada election results
PartyNationwide constituencyConstit.
seats		Total seats
Votes%±pp SeatsSeats+/-
People's Front 3,488,11422.14New6418
82 / 450
New
Petro Poroshenko Bloc 3,437,52121.82New6369
132 / 450
New
Association "Self Reliance" 1,729,27110.97New321
33 / 450
New
Opposition Bloc 1,486,2039.43New272
29 / 450
New
Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko 1,173,1317.44Increase2.svg 6.36220
22 / 450
Increase2.svg 21
Fatherland 894,8375.68Decrease2.svg 19.86172
19 / 450
Decrease2.svg 82
Freedom 742,0224.71Decrease2.svg 5.7306
6 / 450
Decrease2.svg 31
Communist Party of Ukraine 611,9233.88Decrease2.svg 9.30000Decrease2.svg 32
Strong Ukraine 491,4713.11New01
1 / 450
New
Civil Position 489,5233.1— [lower-alpha 1] 000—
Zastup 418,3012.65New01
1 / 450
New
Right Sector 284.9431.80Increase2.svg 1.72 [lower-alpha 2] 01
1 / 450
Increase2.svg 1
Solidarity of Women of Ukraine 105,0940.66—000—
5.10 67,1240.42New000New
Internet Party of Ukraine 58,1970.36— [lower-alpha 3] 000—
Party of Greens of Ukraine 39,6360.25Decrease2.svg 0.09000—
Green Planet 37,7260.23Decrease2.svg 0.11000—
Revival 31,2010.19—000—
United Country28,1450.17—000—
Ukraine — United Country19,8380.12New000New
New Politics 19,2220.12Increase2.svg 0.02000—
Force of People17,8170.11New000New
Ukraine of the Future 14,1680.08Decrease2.svg 0.10000—
Force and Honour13,5490.08—000—
Civil Movement of Ukraine13,0000.08—000—
Bloc of Left Forces of Ukraine12,4990.07—000—
National Democratic Party of Ukraine11,8260.07—000—
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists 8,9760.05— [lower-alpha 4] 000—
Liberal Party of Ukraine 8,5230.05Decrease2.svg 0.02000—
Volia — [lower-alpha 5] ———1
1 / 450
New
Independents————96
96 / 450
Increase2.svg 53
Total valid votes15,753,826100225198423
Invalid ballot papers298,4021.86
Vacant (constituencies with no voting)27
27 / 450
Total16,052,228225225450
Registered voters/turnout30,921,21851.91
Source: CEC (Proportional votes, Single-member constituencies)
Notes:
  1. ↑ At the previous election the party participated in joint "Fatherland" list
  2. ↑ As UNA at the previous election
  3. ↑ Did not participate in party voting at previous election
  4. ↑ At the previous election the party participated in Our Ukraine list
  5. ↑ Ran together with Self Reliance in the party-list voting

Opinion polls

Conduct

The elections were monitored by 2,321 accredited foreign observers, [43] 304 of them on behalf of 21 states and 2,017 from 20 international organisations. [43]

The Ukrainian democratic watchdog OPORA stated about the elections that they were legitimate, but that "the [election] campaign cannot be called fully free within the limits of the country" because of the fighting in the Donbass region. [44] The NGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine asked the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to declare invalid the results of constituencies 45 and 102 because there "significant irregularities were numerous". [44]

The OSCE stated about the elections that they were "in line with international commitments, and were characterized by many positive aspects, including an impartial and efficient Central Election Commission, competitive contests that offered voters real choice, and general respect for fundamental freedoms". [44] European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso called the elections "a victory of the people of Ukraine and of democracy". [44] US President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry also congratulated Ukraine "on successful parliamentary elections". [44] The day after the election Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated "I think we will recognize this election because it is very important for us that Ukraine will finally have authorities that do not fight one another, do not drag Ukraine to the West or to the East, but that will deal with the real problems facing the country". [45] He also hoped that the new Ukrainian government "will be constructive, will not seek to continue escalating confrontational tendencies in society, (in ties) with Russia". [45] Lavrov's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin stated "the election is valid in spite of the rather harsh and dirty election campaign". [45] Karasin also "welcomed the success of parties supporting a peaceful resolution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine" and warned that "nationalistic and chauvinistic forces" in parliament could undermine peace efforts and were "extremely dangerous". [45] Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov, acting chairman of the (Russian) Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, stated that "The contacts earlier established between the State Duma and the Federation Council on the one hand and the Verkhovna Rada on the other will hopefully be re-launched in some format" although he stated he could not imagine how these contacts would be developed since he believed "The new Ukrainian parliament has become more radical-minded". [45] Dzhabarov claimed about the elections that "If such elections had been held in some other country, in Russia for instance, the West would have never recognized them as legitimate. Nevertheless, the West and Europe have recognized the Ukrainian elections as valid". [45] Observers of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation were positive about the elections and in particular welcomed that "administrative resources" were not used in the elections. [44] Observers of the International Republican Institute also expressed this opinion and stated that its observers had witnessed only minor non-systemic irregularities that could not have affected the outcome of the election. [44]

Government formation

By-elections

2015

On 26 July 2015 mid-term election were held in constituency 205 located in Chernihiv. [46] These were necessary after 2014 winner Valeriy Kulich had left parliament because of his appointment as Governor of Chernihiv Oblast. [46] 91 candidates took part in the elections; eight of them for political parties, the others were self-nominated candidates. [46] On election day the ballot paper stretched to about 1 meter. [46] 36 candidates had withdrawn from participation in the elections. [46] During the election campaign top candidates Hennadiy Korban and Serhiy Berezenko were repeatedly accused of bribing voters, the use of black PR and other violations (of the electoral legislation). [47]

The election was won by Berezenko of Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 35.90% of the vote. [42] Second most votes were won by Korban of UKROP who received 14.76%. [42] The official voter turnout was set at 35.3%. [48]

2016

On 17 July 2016 mid-term election were held in 7 single-member districts (constituency 23, 27, 85, 114, 151, 183 and 206) because their representatives had been elected to executive political positions and the death of Ihor Yeremeyev. [49] Turnout varied from about 50% until less than 20%. [50] The elections were monitored by 57 international official observers. [51]

Vote counting in constituency 114 (situated in Stanytsia Luhanska) was disrupted after several members of the election commission refused to count votes. [52] In the same constituency 14 criminal cases for violating the election were opened. [53] Constituency 151 was last in announcing its final results when it did so on 21 July 2016. [54]

Notes

  1. ↑ In a Research & Branding Group opinion poll held from 26 July until 5 August 72% of respondents supported the call for early elections. [10]
  2. ↑ Although not a member of any political party, Tetyana Rychkova joined the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in parliament. [55]

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The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. On 2 December 2014, 288 members of the Ukrainian parliament approved the composition of the cabinet. The Government was backed by Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Fatherland and Radical Party.

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election

The next Ukrainian parliamentary elections must be held no later than 2019. Due to the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast by separatists, only 424 seats in Verkhovna Rada can currently be elected under current laws and roughly 12 percent of voting-age citizens cannot participate in the elections. Under current election laws 225 members of the Verkhovna Rada are elected by nationwide open party-list proportional representation with 5% electoral election threshold and the other 199 seats elected in constituencies with a first-past-the-post electoral system in one round.

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  2. 1 2 Ukraine President Poroshenko Calls Snap General Election, Bloomberg News (25 August 2014)
  3. 1 2 Parliamentary elections not to be held at nine constituencies in Donetsk region and six constituencies in Luhansk region - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (25 October 2014)
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  10. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Більше 70% українців - за переобрання Ради (Over 70% of Ukrainians for the re-election of the Rada), Ukrayinska Pravda (15 August 2014)
  11. 1 2 "Rada speaker announces dissolution of parliamentary coalition", Interfax-Ukraine (24 July 2014)
  12. ↑ "Rada registers bill setting early parliamentary elections date for September 28, 2014", Interfax-Ukraine (24 July 2014)
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  18. ↑ Rada fails to put on today's agenda three bills on elections of MPs, Interfax-Ukraine (14 August 2014)
  19. ↑ На выборах не смогут проголосовать почти 5 млн украинцев Подробности читайте на УНИАН: http://www.unian.net/politics/1000335-na-vyiborah-ne-smogut-progolosovat-pochti-5-mln-ukraintsev.html, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (24 October 2014)
  20. ↑ (in Ukrainian) The CEC explained how to vote to inhabitants of Russian-occupied territories, 5 Kanal (2 September 2014)
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  22. 1 2 Basic electoral statistics 2014 extraordinary parliamentary election Archived 29 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine ., Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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  26. ↑ ЦИК определила порядковые номера партий на выборах в Раду, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (27 September 2014)
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  29. ↑ (in Ukrainian) The party decided Gritsenko, who will go to Council, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 September 2014)
  30. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
    Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014)
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  32. 1 2 Opposition Bloc chooses top ten candidates for parliamentary elections, Interfax Ukraine (23 September 2014)
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  34. ↑ (in Ukrainian) In the 38th district of Dnipropetrovsk stop recount, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (17 November 2014)
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    CEC data about turnout in Luhansk region
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  49. ↑ (in Ukrainian) CEC appointed elections in four constituencies, Ukrayinska Pravda (10 May 2016)
    (in Ukrainian) Довибори до ВР: У Дніпрі 51 кандидат, є представник КПУ (By-election to the Verkhovna Rada: in Dnipro 51, a candidate is a representative of the Communist Party), Ukrayinska Pravda (19 June 2016)
    (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio of Ihor Yeremeyev, LIGA
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  51. ↑ (in Ukrainian) CEC registered 43 observers to the Rada by-election, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 July 2016)
  52. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Problem county in the Luhansk region resumed counting votes, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 July 2016)
  53. ↑ (in Ukrainian) In Luhansk opened 14 cases for violating the election, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 July 2016)
  54. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Became known the results of the vote in the last of the 7 districts, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2016)
  55. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Tetyana Rychkova profile on the Verkhovna Rada website
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