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2020 Cherkasy regional election

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2020 Cherkasy regional election

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All 64 seats in the Cherkasy Oblast Council
33 seats needed for a majority
Turnout35.27% (11.88pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
SN
Leader Anatolii Pidhornyi Serhii Lisovyi Anton Yatsenko
Party Cherkashchany SN ZM
Last election 16 seats, 15.54% New New
Seats won 18 12 12
Seat change 2 New New
Popular vote 67,002 45,338 42,663
Percentage 21.41% 14.49% 13.64%
Swing 5.87pp New New

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
B
OPZZh
Leader Roman Sushchenko Yurii Trenkin Volodymyr Domanskyi
Party YeS Batkivshchyna OPZZh
Last election 18 seats, 17.54%[a] 13 seats, 12.53% New
Seats won 9 7 6
Seat change 9 6 New
Popular vote 33,461 24,057 19,686
Percentage 10.69% 7.69% 6.29%
Swing 6.84pp 4.84pp New

Election result by constituency

Head of the Oblast Council before election

Anatolii Pidhornyi
Cherkashchany

Elected Head of the Oblast Council

Anatolii Pidhornyi
Cherkashchany

The 2020 Cherkasy regional election was held on 25 October 2020, to elect the 8th Oblast Council. All 64 deputies were up for election, decreased from 84 in 2015. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections in Kyiv and twenty-four other oblasts throughout Ukraine.

Cherkashchany became the largest party in the Oblast Council, with Servant of the People and For the Future coming second and third respectively, with 12 seats both. European Solidarity, previously called Petro Poroshenko Bloc, was the biggest party in the council in 2015, but fell to fourth place with just 9 seats. Radical Party of Oleh Liashko and Svoboda fell below the 5% threshold and lost their representation.[1]

Electoral system

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These were the first elections held under the newly adopted Electoral Code, which provided a fully proportional electoral system at the both local and national levels.[2]

Each party had to form two lists: the first is united for the entire city, and the second is for individual territorial districts. The party would receive a mandate if it overcomes the 5% threshold. In this case, the No.1 candidate on the list is guaranteed to receive a seat. Candidates who receive 25% or more of the electoral quota of their district get to the top of the list in descending order of the number of votes for them. In the case of an equal number of votes, the order of candidates will remain as determined by the party at the time of voting. After the candidates who passed to the council according to the quota, the rest are placed in the order determined by the party.[citation needed]

Electoral quota is the number of votes needed to obtain one seat. The electoral quota is determined by the territorial election commission. For this, the commission needed to divide the total number of votes for those parties that won at least 5 percent of the voters' votes and are now participating in the distribution of mandates by the number of mandates. The number of seats into which the electoral votes had to be divided is the difference between the number of seats in the council and the number of guaranteed seats for each party that entered the council (one seat per party).[2]

Prior to the election, Cherkasy Regional Territorial Electoral Commission divided the oblast into 7 electoral districts (okruh) with an almost even population, based on existing districts (raion) and Cherkasy, with an unfixed amount of seats.

District Territory represented
No.1 Cherkasy (Prydniprovskyi)
No.2 Cherkasy (Sosnivskyi)
No.3 Cherkasy Raion
No.4
No.5 Zvenyhorodka Raion
No.6 Uman Raion
No.7 Zolotonosha Raion

Parties and candidates

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Below is a list of the main parties which contested the election:

Party Lead candidate Ideology 2015 result
% Seats
YeS European Solidarity
Європейська солідарність
Roman Sushchenko Liberal conservatism 17.54%
18 / 84
Cherkashchany Cherkashchany
Черкащани
Anatolii Pidhornyi Localism 15.54%
16 / 84
Batkivshchyna Batkivshchyna
Батьківщина
Yurii Trenkin Populism 12.53%
13 / 84
RPOL Radical Party of Oleh Liashko
Радикальна партія Олега Ляшка
Oleksandr Korniienko Left-wing populism 10.25%
10 / 84
Svoboda Svoboda
Свобода
Oleksandr Loshkov Ultranationalism 7.52%
7 / 84
PVA Party of Veterans of Afghanistan
Партія ветеранів Афганістану
Serhii Yakymchuk Veterans' rights 5.01%
5 / 84
SN Servant of the People
Слуга народу
Serhii Lisovyi Liberalism New
ZM For the Future
За майбутнє
Anton Yatsenko Economic nationalism New
OPZZh Opposition Platform — For Life
Опозиційна платформа – За життя
Volodymyr Domanskyi Social democracy New
Not contesting
Revival Revival
Відродження
Economic nationalism 8.15%
8 / 84
UKROP Ukrainian Association of Patriots[b]
Українське об'єднання патріотів
Ukrainian nationalism 6.94%
7 / 84

Campaign

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Party slogans

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Party Original slogan English translation Ref.
Cherkashchany «Голосуй за своїх!» "Vote for your people!" [3]
SN «Буде так, як вирішиш ти!» "It will be the way as you decide!" [4]
ZM «Робили, робимо і будемо робити» "We have done, are doing and will continue to do" [5]
YeS «Обирай кращих! Обирай ЄС» "Choose better ones! Choose YeS" [6]
Batkivshchyna «Надійна команда порядних людей!» "A reliable team of decent people!" [7]
OPZZh «Крокуємо до комфортної громади» "Moving towards a comfortable community" [8]

Debates

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Date Organisers Moderator(s)     P  Present[c]    S  Surrogate[d]    NI  Not invited   A  Absent invitee 
ChE SN ZM YeS B OPZZh KSR SiCh RPOL NK H PVA SP S PRO Ref.
7 October UA:Cherkasy Maryna Denysenko S
Petrenko
NI NI NI P
Trenkin
NI NI NI NI NI P
Shmyhol
S
Dehteriov
NI NI NI [9]
8 October NI S
Novytskyi
A NI NI NI NI NI P
Korniienko
P
Zviriaka
NI NI NI NI NI [10]
9 October NI NI NI NI NI P
Domanskyi
NI P
Boiechko
NI NI NI NI NI P
Loshkov
A [11]
12 October NI NI NI S
Koval
NI NI A NI NI NI NI NI S
Vysochyn
NI NI [12]

Opinion polls

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Fieldwork date Polling firm Sample size Other Lead
26 September-2 October 2020 Hromadska dumka 2,400 13.1 11.8 14.4 7.0 9.8 19.7 11.6 6.3 4.7 5.3
10-15 September 2020 Rating 1,600 9.3 8.7 12.1 6.1 2.3 1.7 20.5 21.5 4.9 1.4 3.1 8.5 1.0
6-14 September 2020 Hromadska dumka 2,400 14.8 11.5 17.3 6.7 8.1 24.0 7.4 10.3 6.7
25 October 2015 2015 Cherkasy regional election 17.54 15.54 12.53 10.25 7.52 0.99 35.63 2.0

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Cherkashchany67,00221.4118+2
Servant of the People45,33814.4912New
For the Future42,66313.6412+5
European Solidarity33,46110.699–9
Batkivshchyna24,0577.697–6
Opposition Platform — For Life19,6866.296New
Serhii Rudyk's Team — Time for Change!14,0364.490New
Strength and Honor10,8693.470New
Radical Party of Oleh Liashko9,1642.930–10
Our Land9,0662.9000
Holos8,4782.710New
Party of Veterans of Afghanistan7,6502.440–5
Self Reliance7,5792.420New
Svoboda7,5582.420–7
Proposition6,2782.010New
Total312,885100.0064–20
Valid votes312,88591.54
Invalid/blank votes28,9068.46
Total votes341,791100.00
Registered voters/turnout969,13735.27
Source: CEC[13]

Notes

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  1. ^ As BPP
  2. ^ Most of party's members joined For the Future, but party de-jure continued to operate separately.
  3. ^ Denotes a lead candidate attending the event.
  4. ^ Denotes a lead candidate not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.

References

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  2. ^ a b Баркар, Дмитро (2020-08-06). "Місцеві вибори за новими правилами: як правильно проголосувати?". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  3. ^ "Черкаська обласна організація ВО "ЧЕРКАЩАНИ"". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  4. ^ "Слуга Народу - Черкащина". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  5. ^ "Черкащина ЗА Майбутнє". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  6. ^ "Європейська Солідарність - Черкащина". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  7. ^ "Черкаська обласна партійна організація "Батьківщина"". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  8. ^ "Олег Помченко". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  9. ^ "Юрій Тренкін, Сергій Шмиголь, Олег Петренко, Сергій Дегтерьов - СУСПІЛЬНЕ ЧЕРКАСИ". ck.suspilne.media. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
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  11. ^ "Володимир Доманський, Олександр Лошков, Владислав Боєчко - СУСПІЛЬНЕ ЧЕРКАСИ". ck.suspilne.media. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
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  13. ^ "Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Місцеві вибори 2020". 2022-02-15. Archived from the original on 2022-02-15. Retrieved 2024-04-29.