Most seats for deputies elected on party lists for the councils of Donetsk, Luhansk and Odesa will go to the Regions Party, whereas in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv city councils, the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association will gain the most seats following the October 31 local elections in Ukraine.
According to an exit poll conducted by Research & Branding Group, the Regions Party received 60.7% of the vote in the election to Donetsk City Council, where it is followed by the Communist Party (with 7.2%), the Strong Ukraine Party (5.6%), the Batkivschyna Party (4.1%), and the Front for Change (4%). Other parties gained less than 3%, and thus will not gain any seats.
In the election to Luhansk City Council, the Regions Party gained 45.2%, the Communist Party 24%, the Strong Ukraine 5%, and the Front for Change (5%).
In the election to Odesa City Council, the Regions Party scored 29.2%, the Front for Change 16%, the Rodina (Motherland) Party 14.1%, the Strong Ukraine Party 10%, the Batkivschyna Party 5.4%, and the Communist Party 3.4%.
In the election to Lviv City Council, the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association received 34% of the vote, the Front for Change11%, the Regions Party 7.4%, Our Ukraine 6.2%, the Republican Christian Party 5.3%, the UDAR Party 4%, the PORA Party 4%, the Popular Rukh of Ukraine 3.5%.
In the election to Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association received 31.3% of the vote, the Front for Change 13.6%, the Batkivschyna Party 11.2%, the Regions Party 7%, the Tretia Syla (the Third Force) 6.7%, Our Ukraine 4.2%,and the UDAR Party 4%.
In the election to Ternopil City Council, the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association won 32.1%, the Regions Party 8.6%, the Front for Change 8%, Our Ukraine 7.4%, the For Ukraine! Party 5.1%, the Batkivschyna Party 4%, and the Ukrainian People’s Party 4%.
The exit poll data were announced on the UT-1 Channel on Sunday night, according to a representative of Research & Branding Group, Eduard Zolotukhin.
The local election was conducted for the first time under a mixed proportional-majority system, with one half of the local council deputies being elected on party lists, and the other half elected in single-member constituencies, although only local party organizations may nominate candidates for these constituencies.
