Ukraine's Oct. 26 parliamentary elections have allowed President Petro Poroshenko's Bloc (23 percent), People's Front (21.3 percent), Samopomich (13.2 percent), Opposition Bloc (7.6 percent), Radical Party (6.5 percent), Svoboda (6.3 percent) and Batkivshchyna (5.6 percent) to take seats in the Verkhovna Rada, according to the exit-poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv International Sociology Institute and Razumkov Center.
Elections were based on a mixed-member proportional representation. According to the law, 225 deputies will be elected on party lists and 225 in single-member constituencies. However, given that the elections won’t be held at 12 single-seat constituencies in Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as at 15 constituencies in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, at most 423 members of parliament out of 450 will be elected.
