2014 Kiev local election

Local elections in Kyiv 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. Parliament sets elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council deputies for May 25
Interfax-Ukraine (25 February 2014) Vitali Klitschko won the mayoral election with almost 57% of the votes, while his party the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform won 73 of the 120 seats in the Kyiv City Council.

The next Kyiv local elections were held in October 2015.Yuriy Yekhanurov elected as a candidate for mayor of Kyiv from the "Renaissance"
UNIAN (29 September 2015)

Background

Secretary of the Kyiv City Council Halyna Hereha has been acting mayorRada suggests to hold elections of Kyiv mayor, city council on June 2
Kyiv Post (7 March 2013) since Leonid Chernovetsky resigned as the Mayor of Kyiv on 1 June 2012. Hereha asked the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) to issue an instruction on holding an early mayoral election on 19 July 2012; the parliament had not considered this issue yet. On 7 March 2013, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Building and Local Government recommended that Parliament should schedule the elections of the Mayor of Kyiv and members of the Kyiv City Council for 2 June 2013. On 2 April 2013, the Verkhovna Rada failed to set any date for the elections because the Party of Regions faction wanted to wait for a ruling from the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on "whether regular elections to local government agencies could be held at different time intervals, rather than simultaneously".Opposition wants election in Kyiv on July 16
, Ukrinform (9 May 2013) The Constitutional Court started considering this case on 11 April 2013.Constitutional Court to start considering case on elections in Kyiv on Thursday
Interfax-Ukraine (8 April 2013) On 29 May 2013 the Constitutional Court set the date of the election as 25 October 2015.Local elections in Kyiv should be held in 2015, according to Constitutional Court
Interfax-Ukraine (30 May 2013)
Ukraine court ruling on Kyiv mayor election ‘pro-government’
Euronews (31 May 2013) The court reasoned that amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine that came into force on 1 February 2011 stipulated that "the next local elections should be held simultaneously all over Ukraine on the last Sunday of October 2015."

The oppositional parties after the 2012 parliamentary election considered the City Council term of authority expired by July 2013 and effectively blocked attempts at its convening through mass protest in July 2013.

As of 7 March 2013, possible candidates for the post of the Mayor of Kyiv were Vitali Klitschko ( UDAR), Andriy Illyenko ( Svoboda), Petro Poroshenko (independent candidate) and Oleh Liashko (Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko).

Oleksandr Popov of Party of Regions and former Head of Kyiv City Administration#14 Richest: Leonid Chernovetsky, 59
Kyiv Post (17 December 2010)Popov: Activity of city council and city head limited
Kyiv Post (1 February 2011)Party of Regions leader: 'Pre-term mayoral elections in Kyiv are pointless'
Kyiv Post (18 November 2011) stated in February 2013 that he was a candidate. On 14 December 2013 President Viktor Yanukovych suspended him as Head of the Kyiv City State Administration. Yanukovych suspends Kyiv City Administration Head Popov and Deputy NSDC Secretary Sivkovych from office, say decrees
Interfax-Ukraine (14 December 2013)
Deputy NSDC Head Sivkovych, Kyiv City Administration Head Popov and two top officials of Kyiv police suspected of abuse of power during events on Maidan on Nov 30, says prosecutor general
Interfax-Ukraine (14 December 2013) The same day the General Prosecutor of Ukraine's Office handed "a notification on suspicion of abuse of power when ordering the Euromaidan police actions of 30 November 2013" to Popov. On 25 April 2014 the Party of Regions announced that they would not put forward a candidate for the elections.

The Verkhovna Rada set a date for the elections on 25 February 2014, just after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president
BBC News (23 February 2014)
Ukraine protests timeline
BBC News (23 February 2014) However, it was later decided that date should be 25 May 2014, the same day as the Ukrainian presidential election.

Registered mayoral candidates

Mayoral candidates were able to nominate themselves from 23 April 2014 until 30 April 2014.Сегодня начинается регистрация кандидатов на должность Киевского городского головы
/ref> 19 candidates competed for the post.
* Gennady Balashov ( independent)
* Volodymyr Bondarenko ( Fatherland)Дарта Вейдера зареєстровано кандидатом в мери Києва
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* Oleh Derevyanko ( Ukrainian People's Party)
* Viktor Dovhy ( independent)
* Andriy Illyenko ( Svoboda)За пост мэра Киева будут бороться девять кандидатов
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* Valeriy Kandruk ( independent)
* Mykola Katerynchuk ( European Party of Ukraine)
* Vitali Klitschko ( UDAR)В Киеве зарегистрировали уже 5 кандидатов на должность мэра
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* Oleksandr Komnatsky (Communist Party of Ukraine)According to the Kyiv mayor office 19 candidates compete
Ukrayinska Pravda (5 April 2014)
* Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (For Ukraine!)
* Andriy Mirgorodsky

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