Kharkiv Oblast Council

Kharkiv Oblast Council
Харківська обласна рада
Kharkiv Oblast Council; Харківська обласна рада
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	1
Leadership
Speaker	Tetyana Yehorova-Lutsenko [uk] (Servant of the People)
Structure
Seats	120
Political groups	Government (63) Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv (46); Servant of the People (17); Supported by (29) Restoration of Ukraine (29); Opposition (28) Bloc Svitlychna Together! (17); European Solidarity (11);
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020
Meeting place
	Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast
Website
	http://www.oblrada.kharkov.ua/ukr/

The Kharkiv Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Харківська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kharkiv Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine. The council is composed of 120 members and is situated in the oblast's administrative center Kharkiv. Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation on the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.^[4]

On 1 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the building was bombed in a missile strike.^[5] According to the Council, 29 people were killed.^[6]

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

Election date was 25 October 2020^[7]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

Revival: 50 seats

Petro Poroshenko Bloc: 20 seats

Opposition Bloc: 19 seats

Self Reliance: 12 seats

Our Land: 11 seats

Fatherland: 8 seats

Election date was 25 October 2015^[8]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

Vasily Kuzmenko (1932–1933)
Ilya Shelekhes (1933–1934)
Ivan Fedyaev (1934–1935)
Grigory Pryadchenko (1935–1937)
Nikolay Prokopenko (1937–1938)
Grigory Butenko (1938–1940)
Pyotr Svinarenko (1940–1942)
Artem Vakhnyuk (acting, 1943)
Dmitry Zhila (acting, 1943)
Ivan Voloshin (1943–1954)
Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (1954–1963)
Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (agrarian, 1963–1964)
Konstantin Trusov (industrial, 1963–1964)
Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (1964–1968)
Andrey Bezditko (1968–1983)
Oleksandr Maselsky (1983–1990)
Yuri Titov (1990–1991)

Regional council

Oleksandr Maselsky (1991–1992)
Volodymyr Tyahlo (1992–1994)
Oleksandr Maselsky (1994–1996)
Volodymyr Tyahlo (1996–2002)
Oleksiy Kolesnik (2002–2004)
Yevhen Kushnaryov (2004–2005)
Oleh Shapovalov (2005–2006)
Vasiliy Salygin (2006–2008)
Serhii Chernov (2008–2020)
Artur Tovmasyan (2020–2021)
Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko (since 2021)

References

^ "Второй фронт. Бывшие из "ОПЗЖ" в Харьковском облсовете поднимают головы". 2day.kh.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
^ "Кто за Суркиса: депутаты Харьковского областного совета, отказавшиеся забрать звание почетного гражданина у нардепа". 2day.kh.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-24.
^ Results of the 2020 elections of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
^ "Elections in Kharkiv Region: Kernes' Son in the Regional Council and Local Success "Servants of the People"". The Ukrainian Week (in Ukrainian). 10 November 2020.
"How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
^ Zinets, Natalia (1 March 2022). "Kharkiv official says Russian missiles hit administration building, residential areas". Reuters. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
^ Суспільне (2022-04-01). "Внаслідок обстрілу обладміністрації у Харкові загинув студент Політеху". Суспільне | Новини (in Ukrainian). Суспільне. Archived from the original on 2022-05-11.
^ Results of the 2020 elections of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
^ Results. Central Electorate Commission

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[1] "Второй фронт. Бывшие из "ОПЗЖ" в Харьковском облсовете поднимают головы". 2day.kh.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-24.

[2] "Кто за Суркиса: депутаты Харьковского областного совета, отказавшиеся забрать звание почетного гражданина у нардепа". 2day.kh.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-01-24.

[3] Results of the 2020 elections of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine

[4] "Elections in Kharkiv Region: Kernes' Son in the Regional Council and Local Success "Servants of the People"". The Ukrainian Week (in Ukrainian). 10 November 2020.
"How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.

[5] Zinets, Natalia (1 March 2022). "Kharkiv official says Russian missiles hit administration building, residential areas". Reuters. Retrieved 1 March 2022.

[6] Суспільне (2022-04-01). "Внаслідок обстрілу обладміністрації у Харкові загинув студент Політеху". Суспільне | Новини (in Ukrainian). Суспільне. Archived from the original on 2022-05-11.

[7] Results of the 2020 elections of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine

[8] Results. Central Electorate Commission

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v t e Regional legislatures of Ukraine
Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk² Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kyiv Kirovohrad Luhansk² Lviv Mykolaiv Odesa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhzhia Zhytomyr
Cities with special status	Kyiv Sevastopol¹
Autonomous republic	Crimea¹
¹Occupied by Russia and administered as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol; ²Due to the war in Donbass, regular functions of regional councils in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were suspended until the end of hostilities.