2020 Ukrainian local elections

The 2020 Ukrainian local elections will take place on Sunday 25 October 2020.[1] In the election deputies of district councils and rural townships will be elected and elections for city mayors will be held.[1]

2020 Ukrainian local elections
25 October 2020[1]

Due to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and loss of government control of parts of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast no elections will not be held in certain parts of these two provinces and no elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be held.[1]

Electoral system

For the first time in Ukrainian local elections all candidates have to pay a cash deposit to be able to take part in the election.[2] The size of this deposit depends on the size of the population of the place where the election is held.[2] The lowest deposit will be for candidates for mayors of Uzhhorod (19,000 hryvnias), Nikopol (20,000 hryvnias) and Melitopol (24,000 hryvnias); while the highest will be for the mayoral candidates of Kiev (445,000 hryvnias), Kharkiv (219,00 hryvnias), and Dnipro (157,000 hryvnias).[2]

Only in places with a population of less than 10,000 voters a candidate can be self-nominated, in all other cases a candidate most be nominated by a political party.[3]

The elections are with a 5% election threshold.[3] The voters will have to fill in two types of candidate lists - one for the whole city (district or region) and a separate for their electoral district (in which they have to write down the number of their favourite candidate themselves).[4] The number 1 on the party list of the whole city is guaranteed a place in the local council (if the party passes the election threshold).[4] The election is held with a specific open list system.[3] In order to benefit of this open list system a candidate in an electoral district needs to gain 25% of the total number of votes received by all parties that overcame the electoral threshold divided by the number of seats in the local council minus the seats won by the number 1's on the party list of the whole city.[3][4]

On all candidate lists among every five candidates two candidates have to be female.[5]

Non-voting areas

Due to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea no elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be held.[1][nb 1] Loss of government control of parts of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast (to the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic) also means elections will not be held in certain parts of these provinces.[1] There will also be no elections for the Donetsk Oblast Council and Luhansk Oblast Council, they're functions are currently being performed by civil–military administrations.[7]

Notes
  1. Crimea is currently under dispute by Russia and Ukraine.[6]

References
  1. Rada appoints next elections to local self-govt bodies for Oct 25, Interfax-Ukraine (15 July 2020)
  2. "Local elections: to go to the mayors of large cities, you need from 19 to 445 thousand hryvnia". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2020.
  3. "How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
  4. "How to use the new proportional system in local elections?". OPORA (in Ukrainian). 20 July 2020.
  5. "The CEC pointed out 4 important features of the autumn local elections". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 24 July 2020.
  6. Gutterman, Steve (18 March 2014). "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  7. "There will be no elections in Donbass until Russia withdraws troops - the vice-speaker". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
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