Description of Electoral System:

(courtesy of IFES election guide)

The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term. In the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) 450 members are allocated on a proportional basis to parties with at least 4% of the total vote to serve 4-year terms.

Electoral laws of Ukraine are available here.

 Recent Elections

Presidential Elections, 2010 

Detailed results of 2010 Ukrainian Presidential elections can be found here.

Past elections

The Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009

On 15 March were held early local elections of Ukraine. According to the CVU report there were no serious violations of electoral laws. For the full CVU report please click here.

On Ternopil oblast local election All-Ukrainen UNion "Freedom" got 34,45 per cent of total votes, the second party with 14,32 per cent of votes is United Centre, while the third one is the Party of Regions with 9,78 % of the votes. For more detailed information please read the article of Wikipedia.

Pre-term parliamentary elections on 30 September, 2007

The pre-term parliamentary elections were held under the agreement made between the President, Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament in May, 2007 to end the political crisis which developed between the President and the ruling government in spring 2007. You can read more information about the political context of these elections here.

The legal framework for holding elections was also modified following the adoption of amendments to the Law on the Election of People’s Deputies on 1 June, 2007. The new law is available here.

Parliamentary Elections, 2006

In the last parliamentary elections held on 26 March, 2006, the Party of Regions won 32,14 % of the votes, followed by the Bloc of Yulia Timoshenko (22,29%). The Bloc „Our Ukraine” gained 13,95% of the votes. From the 45 politicial parties and blocs which were registered for the elections, the Socialist Party of Ukraine (5,69%) and the Communist Party of Ukraine (3,66%) had also passed the 3 percent electoral threshold necessary to win a seat in Verkhovna Rada. For more information please visit the website of the Central Election Commission.

The OSCE/ODIHR international election observation missions reported that the last parliamentary elections in Ukraine were conducted in compliance with most international standards for democratic elections. The final report of the OSCE/ODIHR is available here and you can also read the report of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine about the electoral process (the report is available in Russian). The European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) has also noted significant improvement in the electoral process over the 2004 presidential elections in its report.