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As the vote count for the parliamentary elections continue with 61 percent processed, the Kyiv Post offers a look at the remarkable victories in single-mandate districts, which combined, will fill half the 450-seat legislature.

For party list results read: Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front leads as over 57 percent of votes counted (LIVE UPDATES)

Borys Filatov

district 27, Dnipropetrovsk

With 80 percent of the votes counted, Borys Filatov is winning in district 27 in Dnipropetrovsk with 56.27 percent.

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Filatov co-owns some of the most pricey realty in Dnipropetrovsk. In March he accepted the post of deputy head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from the region’s governor and billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy. He took to overseeing the exchange of prisoners with separatist insurgents in Donetsk Oblast and organized the delivery of wounded Ukrainian soldiers to hospitals in Dnipropetrovsk.

“According to exit polls, my result is one of the highest in the coutry,” Filatov wrote on his Facebook timeline, adding that he “will not fail his native district”.

He accused President Petro Poroshenko and his party of interfering in the elections in the region, which led to the Opposition Block winning in the region.

Filatov claims that Poroshenko’s people were “frightened that Dnipropetrovsk team can get too much power.”

At the same time, Block of Petro Poroshenko didn’t nominated any candidates in the district of Filatov. None of the other pro-Western parties nominated candidates in his district too – Opposition Bloc, People’s Front and Samopomich.

Filatov is part of Virgin Galactic’s space tourism program. His space flight was initially planned for this year.

Dmytro Yarosh

district 39, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dmytro Yarosh

With 92 percent of votes counted, Dmytro Yarosh is winning with a result of 29.75 percent.

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Leader of the nationalist party Right Sector , known foe takinf an active role in the EuroMaidan Revolution, Yarosh didn’t take the risk of putting his name of the party list. With half of votes counted, the Ringht Sector has only 1.9 percent of support. Yarosh himself ran in a single-seat district in his native region and succeeded. His run for the presedancy in May got him less than one percent of the vote.

At the same time Right Sector spokesperson Boryslav is leading in district 213 in Kyiv.

Yuklum Zvyagilskiy

district 45, Donetsk Oblast

 

 

District 45 in Donetsk Oblast is the only constituency where the count was already complete in the morning of Oct. 27. According to the Central Election Commission, Yukhym Zvyagilskiy is winning with a record result of 72 percent where all the 1,454 votes cast in four polling stations have been counted.

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Zvyagilskiy, 81, has been a member of every
Ukrainian parliament since independence. For the last three elections
Zvyagilskiy ran with the Party of Regions, the party of former President
Viktor Yanukovych. Like many of his former party fellows, this time he
chose to run independently to avoid unwanted associations with the
former government. He voted for the January 16 “dictator laws.”

Viacheslav Konstantinovsky

district​ 220​, Kyiv

Kyiv millionaire Viacheslav Konstantinovsky got to the parliament with 32,47 percent of votes. He was supported by the People’s Front party.

​Read in Kyiv Post: Businessman who sold Rolls-Royce and went to war hopes to enter parliament

Vyachelsav Konstantinovsky

The ​businessman​ took active role in helping Ukrainian government troops in the military conflict in Ukraine’s east. He said he​ ​​donated over ​Hr 8 million to Ukrainian army​ and sold his Rolls-Royce​ to cover part of it. Konstantinovsk​y and his twin brother​ own Kyiv Donbas Development Group​ and a restaurant chain in​ ​Kyiv.​ ​​In 2013 ​Focus​ magazine​ estimated ​the ​fortune ​of the ​brothers ​as $355 million. In the ranking of the ​richest Ukrainian​s​ they took 44th place.

His main rival ​in the district ​​was ​Dmytro Gordon​, journalist, businessman and owner of Boulevard, a popular newspaper​. 

Andriy B​i​l​e​tskiy

distric​t 217​, Kyiv

Andriy B​i​l​e​tskiy

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With 97 percent votes co​unted, Andriy B​i​l​e​tskiy, the controversial ultra-nationalist leader of the volunteer Azov Battalion defeats ex-member of the Party of Regions Vadym Stolar  with a result of 33.74  percent. Biletskiy is a commander of Azov, Interior ministry​’s ​special ​batallion based in Mariupol. ​

The district 217 appear​ed to be one of the most troublesome.​ The chairman of ​one of the local election committees was acсused ​i​n helping to hack the ​computer ​system ​of Central Election Committees and was detained. ​Biletskiy’s main rival was Vadym Stolar, a businessman and former Party of Regions member who already tried to win the district in 2012 elections. Stolar ​publicly admitted that B​i​l​e​tskiy won the race.