2008 Kyiv Local Election

Early mayoral and city council elections ( uk, Дотермінові вибори до київської міської ради (2008) were contested in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on May 25, 2008. The snap election was called by the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada by a 246-5 vote on March 18 amid corruption allegations involving the incumbent Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi. 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, 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 Leonid Chernovetskyi was officially declared the winner of the mayoral election on May 30. Yuriy Lozovskyi, Secretary of the Kyiv CEC, said that the voter turnout 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 elections for the post of Mayor and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections.

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 incumbent Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, from the Christian Liberal Party of Ukraine. He was facing allegations of corruption and illegal privatization of Kyiv territories,
* Vitaliy Klychko boxer,
* Oleh Tyahnybok, from the All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom",
* Vladyslav Kaskyv, from the Civil Party "PORA";
* Vice-Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc;
* Vasyl Horbal, from the Party of Regions;

A total of 37 parties and blocs participated in the Kyiv City Council election. These included both national (e.g. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine) and local political parties (e.g. Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc).

Results

Mayoral election

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, style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" , Candidates
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9", Votes
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ,    2006
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, style="text-align:left;" , Leonid Chernovetskyi (Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc)
, style="vertical-align:top;" , 431,500
, style="vertical-align:top;" , 37.72%
, style="vertical-align:top;" , 5,89%
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, style="text-align:left;" , Oleksandr Turchynov (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc)
, style="vertical-align:top;" , 218,600
, style="vertical-align:top;" , 19.13%
, style="vertical-align:top;" , Did not run
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, style="text-align:left;" , Vitaliy Klychko