His party Servant of the People won the elections to municipal councils in two large cities in the centre of Ukraine, but in the other seven it most often placed third or fourth, according to two polls. In nine major cities and regional centres across the country where the polls were held, no presidential party candidate was elected mayor - not even in Zelensky's hometown. During the second round, the voter turnout dropped to 34.08%.Early exit polls showed that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has suffered a setback in Sunday's local elections, while his pro-Russian and pro-European rivals are leading in most of the country's major cities. The voter turnout was 46.62% of the population. The political parties contested for the 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional parliaments, more than 10,700 local councils and mayoral seats. Ī total of 132 political parties took part in the elections. In the west, Svoboda improved its performance compared with previous year's parliamentary election. The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast). The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south. The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties, followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party. Results of the 2015 Ukrainian local elections by oblast.īecause 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.
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