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2020 Ukrainian local elections

2020 Ukrainian local elections
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Location of elections throughout Ukraine.

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 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and loss of government control of parts of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast, no elections were held in parts of the two oblasts and in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.[1] Elections were also held in new raions that were formed following the 2020 administrative reform.

According to the results as published by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine the highest number of seats in the election was won by Servant of the People with 17.59% of local deputies nominated in the election by this party.[7] Second place was for Fatherland with 12.39% of deputies and in third place was Opposition Platform — For Life with 11.75%.[7] For the Future gained 11.42% of the total number of seats, European Solidarity 10.73% and Our Land 5.13%.[7] Independent candidates won 661 mayoral elections.[8] 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.[8] Turnout (on 25 October) was reported at 36.88% by the Central Election Commission, down from almost 47% in the 2015 local elections.[9][10]

President Volodymyr Zelensky's party, Servant of the People, suffered setbacks in major cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv; meanwhile, pro-European and pro-Russian parties made gains.[9] In Ukraine's largest cities, not only Servant of the People but all national parties were beaten by local parties of individual city mayors.[11]

  1. ^ a b c d Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (15 July 2020)
  2. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Mayors will be re-elected in seven cities on Sunday, Ukrainska Pravda (13 November 2020)
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) Ukraine holds local elections 2020 (updated), The Ukrainian Week (25 October 2020)
  4. ^ Romanova, Valentyna (2022). "The 2020 regional elections in Ukraine: Simultaneously nationalized and regionalized". Regional & Federal Studies. doi:10.1080/13597566.2022.2100358. ISSN 1359-7566.
  5. ^ a b Ukraine prepares for nationwide local elections, The Ukrainian Weekly (2 October 2020)
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference 7273927KryvyiRih was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) The CEC showed the top 10 parties that won the most seats in the election, Ukrainska Pravda (18 November 2020)
  8. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference CECshows7274042 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ a b "Ukraine's Zelensky suffers setback in local elections". France 24. 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  10. ^ (in Ukrainian) Явка виборців на місцевих виборах 25 жовтня 2020 року склала 36,88 % Archived 2020-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Voter turnout in the local elections on 25 October 2020 was 36.88%, Central Election Commission of Ukraine (26 October 2020)
  11. ^ Ukrainian local elections: Zelenskyy fairytale is over by Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council (26 October 2020)

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