2020 Cherkasy regional election

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.

Electoral system 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.

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.

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).

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. DistrictTerritory representedNo.1Cherkasy (Prydniprovskyi)No.2Cherkasy (Sosnivskyi)No.3Cherkasy RaionNo.4No.5Zvenyhorodka RaionNo.6Uman RaionNo.7Zolotonosha Raion

Parties and candidates Below is a list of the main parties which contested the election: PartyLead candidateIdeology2015 result%SeatsYeSEuropean SolidarityЄвропейська солідарністьRoman SushchenkoLiberal conservatism17.54%CherkashchanyCherkashchanyЧеркащаниAnatolii PidhornyiLocalism15.54%BatkivshchynaBatkivshchynaБатьківщинаYurii TrenkinPopulism12.53%RPOLRadical Party of Oleh LiashkoРадикальна партія Олега ЛяшкаOleksandr KorniienkoLeft-wing populism10.25%SvobodaSvobodaСвободаOleksandr LoshkovUltranationalism7.52%PVAParty of Veterans of AfghanistanПартія ветеранів АфганістануSerhii YakymchukVeterans' rights5.01%SNServant of the PeopleСлуга народуSerhii LisovyiLiberalism colspan="2" ZMFor the FutureЗа майбутнєAnton YatsenkoEconomic nationalism colspan="2" OPZZhOpposition Platform — For LifeОпозиційна платформа – За життяVolodymyr DomanskyiSocial democracy colspan="2" Not contestingRevivalRevivalВідродженняEconomic nationalism8.15%UKROPUkrainian Association of PatriotsУкраїнське об'єднання патріотівUkrainian nationalism6.94%

Campaign

Party slogans PartyOriginal sloganEnglish translationCherkashchany«Голосуй за своїх!»"Vote for your people!"SN«Буде так, як вирішиш ти!»"It will be the way as you decide!"ZM«Робили, робимо і будемо робити»"We have done, are doing and will continue to do"YeS«Обирай кращих! Обирай ЄС» "Choose better ones! Choose YeS" Batkivshchyna«Надійна команда порядних людей!»"A reliable team of decent people!"OPZZh«Крокуємо до комфортної громади»"Moving towards a comfortable community"

Debates Date Organisers Moderator(s) ChE SN ZM YeS B OPZZh KSR SiCh RPOL NK H PVA SP S PRO 7 October UA:Cherkasy Maryna Denysenko S NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI S NI NI NI 8 October NI S NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI 9 October NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI 12 October NI NI NI S NI NI NI NI NI NI NI S NI NI

Opinion polls

Fieldwork datePolling firmSample sizeOtherLead26 September-2 October 2020Hromadska dumka2,40013.111.814.47.0—9.819.711.66.3——4.75.310-15 September 2020Rating1,6009.38.712.16.12.31.720.521.54.91.43.18.51.06-14 September 2020Hromadska dumka2,40014.811.517.36.7—8.124.0—7.4——10.36.725 October 20152015 Cherkasy regional election17.5415.5412.5310.257.520.99—————35.632.0

Results

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