Early

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al and

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( uk, Дотермінові вибори до київської міської ради (2008) were contested in the

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capital

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on May 25, 2008. The snap election was called by the Ukrainian parliament, the

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by a 246-5 vote on March 18 amid

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allegations involving the

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Mayor

Leonid Chernovetskyi Leonid Mykhaylovych Chernovetskyi ( uk, Леонід Михайлович Черновецький; born November 25, 1951 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a former Mayor of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, from 2006 until the summer of 2012. He w ...

. The local election determined the new Mayor of Kyiv, as well as the composition of the 120-seat Kyiv City Council. The Ukrainian parliament assigned the job of determining the election costs to the

Central Election Commission of Ukraine The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...

, working in partnership with the Kyiv City Election Commission. The Kyiv CEC designated March 26 as the date for the start of election campaigning. In all, seven parties and blocs passed the 3% threshold needed to gain seats in the Kyiv City Council. The incumbent

was officially declared the winner of the mayoral election on May 30. Yuriy Lozovskyi, Secretary of the Kyiv CEC, said that the

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was estimated at 53-54%. The electoral commission said that the elections were largely clear and fair without any major incidents, but that the largest electoral violation was voter shopping. Although legally the following Kyiv local election had to take place in 2013, eventually

for the post of

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and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014 as part of the

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Candidates, parties, and blocs

In all, seventy-nine candidates were registered by the Kyiv Territorial Electoral Commission for the upcoming mayoral election. Candidates from some of the main political parties included: * the

Mayor

, from the

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. He was facing allegations of

and illegal

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of Kyiv territories, *

Vitaliy Klychko Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (; uk, Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv heavyweight Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the Wo ...

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, * Oleh Tyahnybok, from the

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, * Vladyslav Kaskyv, from the Civil Party "PORA"; * Vice-Prime Minister

Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Sec ...

, from the

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( uk, Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of blocs ...

and the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc; * Vasyl Horbal, from the

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; A total of 37 parties and blocs participated in the Kyiv City Council election. These included both national (e.g.

, Our Ukraine) and local political parties (e.g.

Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc ( uk, Блок Леоніда Черновецького) was a regional political alliance supporting the Mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetskyi based in the city of Kyiv. At the 2008 combined Kyiv Mayoral election and Kyi ...

Results

Mayoral election

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) , style="vertical-align:top;" , 431,500 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 37.72% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 5,89% , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

(

) , style="vertical-align:top;" , 218,600 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 19.13% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Vitaliy Klychko Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (; uk, Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́ ; born 19 July 1971) is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klychko Bloc The Vitali Klitschko Bloc ( uk, Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко) were two local political coalitions in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv who contended in two local elections there. History 2006 Kyiv l ...

) , style="vertical-align:top;" , 205,300 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 17.97% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 5,73% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Victor Pylypyshyn ( Lytvyn Bloc) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 6.73% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Mykola Katerynchuk Mykola Dmytrovych Katerynchuk ( uk, Микола Дмитрович Катеринчук) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer, a PhD in Law (Candidate of Juridical Sciences), a former member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). The Ch ...

( Mykola Katerynchuk Bloc) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 4.43% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" , Vasyl Horbal (

) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2.54% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" , Oleksandr Omelchenko ( Oleksandr Omelchenko Bloc) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2.37% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 18,82% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Oleh Tyahnybok (

) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1.38% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Oleksandr Pabat Oleksandr Viktorovych Pabat ( uk, Олександр Вікторович Пабат) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who was from 2002 to 2020 a member of the Kyiv City Council. Pabat was a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian ...

( Kyiv Civil Activists) , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1.35% , style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" , Invalid ballot papers , style="vertical-align:top;" , 48,600 , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9", Total (turnout 52.02%) , width="100" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 1,164,823 , width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", , style="vertical-align:top;text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , colspan=5 style="text-align:left;" , Source
UNIAN News Agency (English)

City Council election

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(''Блок Леонід Черновецький'') *

*Green Planet *Women of Ukraine , style="vertical-align:top;" , 350,700 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 30.45% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 43 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 9% , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

(''Блок Юлії Тимошенко'') * All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" * Ukrainian Social Democratic Party * Reforms and Order Party , style="vertical-align:top;" , 262,500 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 22.79% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 32 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 19% , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

Vitaliy Klychko Bloc The Vitali Klitschko Bloc ( uk, Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко) were two local political coalitions in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv who contended in two local elections there. History 2006 Kyiv l ...

(''Блок Віталія Кличко'') *

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, Rukh ...

*European capital *Ukrainian social-democrats , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 10.61% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 15 , style="vertical-align:top;" , , - , style="text-align:left;" , Lytvyn Bloc (''Блок Литвина'') * People's Party *All-Ukrainian Patriotic Union , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 8.17% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 11 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 4.54% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Kyiv Civil Activists (''Громадський актив Києва'') *

Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine The Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine ( uk, Ліберально-демократична партія України, Liberalno-demokratychna partiya Ukrayiny) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 1992.Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...

(''Партія регіонів'') , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 3.95% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 6 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1,81% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Mykola Katerynchuk Bloc (''Блок Миколи Катеринчука'') *

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*European platform , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 3.47% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 5 , style="vertical-align:top;" , , - , style="text-align:left;" , Oleksandr Omelchenko Bloc (''Блок Олександра Омельченка'') * Social Democratic Union *Ukrainian Marine Party , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2,26% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , did not run , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

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(''Комуністична партія України'') , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2,24% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0,5% , - , style="text-align:left;" ,

(''Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Свобода»'') , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2,08% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1,71% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (''Наша Україна'') * Our Ukraine *

People's Self-Defense Third Ukrainian Republic ( uk, Третя Українська Республіка) is a political party in Ukraine. The party was formally named (from its creation in May 1999 till April 2010) Forward, Ukraine! ( uk, Вперед, Україно ...

, style="vertical-align:top;" , 23 202 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 13% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Ukrainian People's Party (''Українська народна партія'') , style="vertical-align:top;" , 2 884 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0,25% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1,3% , - , style="text-align:left;" , PORA (''ПОРА'') , style="vertical-align:top;" , 1,980 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0,17% , style="vertical-align:top;" , 0 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 13% , - , style="text-align:left;" , Invalid ballot papers , style="vertical-align:top;" , 184,159 , style="vertical-align:top;" , 15,81% , style="vertical-align:top;" , , style="vertical-align:top;" , , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9", Total (turnout 52.02%) , width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 1,164,823 , width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 100% , width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 120 , style="vertical-align:top;text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", , - , colspan=5 style="text-align:left;" , Source
Ukrainian News
, - , colspan=5 style="text-align:left;" , The Reforms and Order Party,

and PORA contested the March 26, 2006 city council elections as one

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Faction chances since the elections

Severe changes occurred in the Kyiv City Council following 2008. As of September 2011 seven additional factions had been created (2 of them with only 2 members, 1 with 3 members).Голови депутатських фракцій та груп Київради VI скликання
, Kyiv City Council The faction of the winner of the election, the

, disbanded itself on September 22, 2011.Chernovetsky Bloc in Kyiv City Council disbanded

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(September 22, 2011) (all the deputies that were members of the faction at the time where then considered as independents); this made the faction of UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko the biggest faction with 12 seats (3 seats less them won) followed by the

with 10 seats (4 seats more than won). Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko saw 22 deputies leaving the faction since the election. In January 2013 the UDAR faction was 13 persons strong while the Party of Regions faction had fallen down to 8 people. This made the People's Party faction with 11 deputies the second biggest faction. The faction Democratic Party of Ukraine contained 10 deputies. Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko had lost 1 more deputy and stood at 9. Just as much as the factions Social Justice and Initiative. These last two and the faction Democratic Party of Ukraine where created in 2011. In June 2013 the People's Party faction contained 4 people. The other factions membership had stayed stable. Following the 2008 election the following persons gave up there seat:

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Sec ...

, Mykola Tomenko,

, Anatoliy Khostykoyev,

Stepan Chernovetskyi Stepan Chernovetskyi (born 28 October 1978) is Ukrainian businessman, investor, founder of ''Chernovetskyi Investment Group'' (CIG). Biography Stepan was born in Tbilisi on October 28, 1978. In 2003, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Ta ...

(son of the Kyiv Mayor) and Tetiana Donets.Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

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(11 November 2012) The next person in the party list is appointed a city council deputy when their colleagues give up there seat.

Polls

According to a telephone poll conducted prior to the election by the Razumkov Centre, 25.2% of the respondents said they would support Vitaliy Klychko for the position of mayor, 24.9% support Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, 10% support the former city mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, 6% support current Vice-Prime Minister

, and 5.4% said they support the

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Yuriy Lutsenko. A different poll conducted by the Center of Political and Marketing Studies Sotsis, showed that 22.8% of the respondents support the incumbent mayor, 22% support Vitaliy Klychko, 11.5% support Oleksandr Omelchenko, 6.3% support Verkhovna Rada Deputy Mykola Tomenko, and 5.7% support Yuriy Lutsenko.

Calls for new snap elections

On December 12, 2008

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Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Tymoshenko Confident That Early Mayoral Elections Will Be Repeated In Kyiv
, Ukrainian News Agency (December 12, 2008) On December 11, 2008 the

Kyivenergo DTEK (Ukrainian: ДТЕК) is the largest private investor in the energy industry in Ukraine. The company's enterprises generate electricity at solar, wind and thermal power plants; extract coal and natural gas, trade energy products in the Ukrain ...

utility company began cutting the supply of hot water to about 5,000 homes in Kyiv because of the Kyiv municipal administration's failure to compensate the company for the difference between the tariffs charged by Kyivenerho and the actual cost of its services, Tymoshenko accuses

of using money from the municipal budget to finance his election campaign (and so there were insufficient funds to pay Kyivenerho). On February 6, 2009 the

stated it will apply to the

, the Cabinet of Ministers, the

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and the Kyiv prosecutor's office with a request to take into consideration the unlawfulness of Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi actions and to call early mayoral elections in the city. Early January 2010 Parliament Speaker

Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Литви́н, ; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously se ...

stated he started preparing a draft law to conduct an early mayoral election in Kyiv on May 30, 2010 as well as a local council election. He stated he "could not stand what was going on in Kyiv any longer" and that his own Lytvyn Bloc would will take part in the election. A resolution setting early Kyiv election for May 30, 2010 was registered in the

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on January 18, 2010 but it was not included in the agenda yet. The resolution was cancelled on February 16, 2010.Ukrainian parliament cancels mayor's election date of May 30

(February 16, 2010) On February 16, 2010 the Ukrainian parliament cancelled all Ukrainian local election dates original set for May 30, 2010. A new date was not set but

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expected new local elections in the spring of 2011. Eventually these local elections did take place late 2010 After former Mayor Chernovetsky had tendered his resignation on 1 June 2012Hereha sends petition to parliament on holding of early mayoral election in Kyiv

(19 July 2012) a petition to the

Ukrainian Parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

on holding an early mayoral election in the city was sent (the date of the early mayoral election is set by this parliament). Although (in November 2011) it looked that the next Kyiv local election (including Mayoral elections) where set for 2012;Party of Regions leader: 'Pre-term mayoral elections in Kyiv are pointless'

(November 18, 2011) in January 2013 the Ukrainian Parliament had set no date for these elections. Legally they had to take place in 2013.CEC member: Kyiv City Council to be elected for five years in upcoming election

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(16 February 2013)Rada suggests to hold elections of Kyiv mayor, city council on June 2

(7 March 2013) But in May 2013 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine set the date of the election to 25 October 2015.Local elections in Kyiv should be held in 2015, according to Constitutional Court

(30 May 2013)
Ukraine court ruling on Kiev mayor election ‘pro-government’

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(31 May 2013) Eventually