2020 Ukrainian local elections
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The 2020 Ukrainian local elections took place on Sunday 25 October 2020.[3][1] In the election, deputies of district councils and rural townships were elected and elections for city mayors were held.[1][4] In practice this will mean that most voters had to fill out four ballots.[5] 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.[2][5][6]
Due to the
According to the results as published by the
President
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.[12]
Campaign
Late June 2020 the first street
On 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.
On all candidate lists, two out of every five candidates had to be female.[16]
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 political parties.[17]
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.
In
In practice most voters had to fill out four ballots.[5] Voters in Kyiv received only two ballots, for the election of the mayor of Kyiv and the Kyiv City Council election.[5] In Poltava, Kropyvnytskyi, Kryvyi Rih, Kherson and Zhytomyr voters received an additional fifth ballot for candidates for the district councils in the city.[5]
Deputies of local councils will receive no compensation for their work.[5]
Non-voting areas
Due to the
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.[22][23]
Exit polls
Exit polls indicated that president
The overall picture emerging from the exit polls was that pro-European and pro-Russian parties had appeared to have made gains,[9] but that in Ukraine's major cities national parties had been beaten by local parties of individual city mayors.[11][27]
Election summary
According to the results as published by the
Most mayors elected were
Servant of the People showed its best results in
Voter turnout
The nationwide turnout of the elections was 36.88% nationwide.
During the 2015 Ukrainian local elections nationwide voter turnout had been 46.62% of the population.[33] 30% of respondents of the (above mentioned) "Rating" poll stated the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine 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.[34]
The voter turnout at the second round of mayoral elections held in Lutsk, Kramatorsk, Ukrainka, Odesa, Sumy, Kherson and Kamianets-Podilskyi on 15 November was on average 24%.[35] The highest turnout rate among seven cities was recorded in Kamianets-Podilskyi with its 34.29%.[36] The lowest turnout was recorded in Sumy with 19.02%.[36]
Mayoral elections (selected cities)
Kyiv
In
Kharkiv
In
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 COVID-19.[42][43] On election day Kernes was (since 17 September 2020) hospitalized in
On 31 October 2021, a
Odesa
In
Trukhanov and Skoryk took part in the final round of the election.[47] Trukhanov defeated Skoryk in the second round of the mayoral election on 15 November 2020, 54.28% of the voters voted for him.[49]
Dnipro
In Dnipro, a second round of the mayoral election was held between incumbent mayor Borys Filatov and Zahid Krasnov which was won by Filatov with 80.61% of the votes.[50]
In the first round of the election Filatov (nominated by
Conduct
The day after the election (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.[53]
Notes
- ^ Crimea is currently under dispute by Russia and Ukraine.[20]
- sociological group "Rating" predicted 9.5% of the votes for the party in the election for the Kyiv City Council and a fourth place for its mayoral candidate Iryna Vereshchuk with 8% of the votes.[25]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (15 July 2020)
- ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) Mayors will be re-elected in seven cities on Sunday, Ukrainska Pravda (13 November 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Ukraine holds local elections 2020 (updated), The Ukrainian Week (25 October 2020)
- ISSN 1359-7566.
- ^ a b c d e f Ukraine prepares for nationwide local elections, The Ukrainian Weekly (2 October 2020)
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Elections of the mayor of Kryvyi Rih will be held on December 6, Ukrainska Pravda (17 November 2020)
- ^ a b c d e f g h (in Ukrainian) The CEC showed the top 10 parties that won the most seats in the election, Ukrainska Pravda (18 November 2020)
- ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) Mayoral and village mayoral elections: CEC shows ranking of winning parties, Ukrainska Pravda (18 November 2020)
- ^ a b c "Ukraine's Zelensky suffers setback in local elections". France 24. 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- Central Election Commission of Ukraine(26 October 2020)
- ^ a b Ukrainian local elections: Zelenskyy fairytale is over by Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council (26 October 2020)
- ^ "Державний реєстр виборців". www.drv.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2020-08-22. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- ^ Civil movement "Chesno"(26 August 2020) (in Ukrainian)
- UNIAN(15 July 2020)
- ^ a b c "Local elections: to go to the mayors of large cities, you need from 19 to 445 thousand hryvnia". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.
- ^ "The CEC pointed out 4 important features of the autumn local elections". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 24 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d "How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) Surprises of local elections: what you need to know in order not to "break your brain" - 2, Ukrainska Pravda (19 October 2020)
- ^ OPORA(in Ukrainian). 20 July 2020.
- ^ Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Виборів на Донбасі не буде, поки Росія не виведе війська – віцеспікерка (There will be no elections in Donbas until Russia withdraws troops - the vice-speaker)". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
- ^ The results of the elections in Kyiv will be known at best on October 28 - TECs, The Ukrainian Weekly (25 October 2020)
- ^ Local elections. The counting of votes may take a long time - CVU, The Ukrainian Weekly (25 October 2020)
- Pryamiy kanal(23 July 2019)
- ^ Klitschko has the best chance to win Kyiv mayoral elections – exit poll, Ukrinform (25 October 2020)
- from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Local elections 2020: The first exit polls have been announced, The Ukrainian Week (25 October 2020)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m (in Ukrainian) Party measurement of the results of local elections in 2020, Ukrainska Pravda (23 November 2020)
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Political Trends November 2020, Ukrainska Pravda (7 December 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Local elections in Slovyansk: a cold shower for OPZZh, The Ukrainian Week (26 November 2020)
- ^ a b Ukraine's western regions were most active in local elections - CEC, Ukrinform (26 October 2020)
- ^ More than half of the voters who came to the polling station were over 50 years old, Ukrainska Pravda (28 October 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) [1]
- ^ Did not go to the polls: every 5th because of health, Ukrainska Pravda (26 October 2020)
- ^ CEC: Voter turnout in second round of mayoral elections is 24%, Ukrinform (16 November 2020)
- ^ a b Turnout in second round of mayoral elections in Ukraine was 24% at 20:00 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (16 November 2020)
- ^ a b Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election, Ukrinform (6 November 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Klitschko reacted to support from Poroshenko's party: We are not bargaining, Ukrainska Pravda (16 September 2020)
(in Ukrainian) "Eurosolidarity" will support Klitschko in the elections in Kyiv, Ukrainska Pravda (16 September 2020) - ^ UNIAN(4 November 2020)
- Civil movement "Chesno"(24 June 2020) (in Ukrainian)
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Heir to Kernes, The Ukrainian Week (4 November 2021)
- UNIAN(15 September 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Kernes was re-elected mayor of Kharkiv - a voter, Ukrainska Pravda (4 November 2020)
- ^ BBC Ukrainian(17 December 2020) (in Ukrainian)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) "Servant of the people" will not nominate a candidate for mayor of Kharkiv, Ukrainska Pravda (6 September 2021)
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Kharkiv mayoral election: the court denied OPORA's lawsuits, although it acknowledged differences, Ukrainska Pravda (9 November 2021)
- ^ a b c Ukrainian local elections: City-by-city guide to this weekend's runoff votes, Atlantic Council (13 November 2020)
- RBC Ukraine(15 November 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Trukhanov officially won the mayoral election in Odesa, The Ukrainian Week (17 November 2020)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Filatov became the mayor of Dnipro for the second time, The Ukrainian Week (23 November 2020)
- RBC Ukraine(19 November 2020)
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) OSCE: elections in Ukraine were held without violations, but "SE poll" played into the hands of "servants", Ukrainska Pravda (26 October 2020)
- ^ 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, Interfax-Ukraine (23 November 2020)
External links
- "The 2020 Ukrainian local elections on the official web-server of the". Central Election Commission of Ukraine(in Ukrainian). 25 February 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- "Results of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections on the official web-server of the". Central Election Commission of Ukraine(in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 November 2020.