Ukraine's 116th electoral district is an electoral district in Lviv Oblast. Established in its current form in 2012, it comprises the Zaliznychnyi District and part of the Shevchenkivskyi District of the city of Lviv, covering the western and north-western parts of the city. The district borders districts 122 to the west, north-west and north, district 118 to the north-east, south and south-west, and district 117 to the east.
The district contains 81 polling stations and had 170,998 registered voters as of 2019.
Between 2012 and 2014, the electoral district was represented by Iryna Farionhttps://people.rada.gov.ua/body/view/mp-d116_1_skl7#Text of the far-right Svoboda party, a linguist and a controversial public figure.
People's Deputies ElectionPartyPortraitMember 2012 Svoboda Iryna Farion 2014 Self Reliance Iryna Podoliak 2019 European Solidarity Mykola Kniazhytskyi
Elections 2019 In the 2019 parliamentary election, the district changed hands again. Despite the Holos party, led by musician Sviatoslav Vakarchuk winning the nationwide proportional representation vote in the district with 29.5% of the vote, which was the party's second-highest result among all electoral districts in Ukraine, Mykola Kniazhytskyi of European Solidarity won the single-mandate vote, receiving 23.0% of the vote with the Holos party candidate coming close second.
The incumbent MP Iryna Podoliak failed to secure re-election, finishing seventh with 5.0% of the vote. The former MP Iryna Farion, who had previously represented the district from 2012 to 2014, finished fifth with 10.0%.
2014 In 2014, the election was won comfortably by Iryna Podoliak of the Self Reliance party, with the result representing a significant 46.4 percentage-point swing. Iryna Farion failed to retain the district, finishing third. After losing her seat, the former MP made controversial remarks regarding the voters who supported her opponents.
In the nationwide proportional representation vote held in the district, Svoboda finished fourth with 6.3% of the vote.
2012 Iryna Farion of the Svoboda party won the district in a landslide, receiving 68.0% of the vote. This was the highest result achieved by a Svoboda candidate in a single-member district nationwide in that election.
In the nationwide proportional representation vote, Svoboda received 41.7% of the vote in the district, the party's second-highest result among all electoral districts in Ukraine.
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