Local elections in Ukraine were held with numerous violations of the electoral process organization procedure and international standards including Main drawbacks concerned instable electoral legislation and vague procedures, violation of equal opportunities principle and the principle of balanced proportion of mandates, low level of ballot papers security and violations which may be specified and voter bribery. However, Civil Network OPORA affirms that election day violations were usually un...

According to the preliminary findings of the OPORA, local elections were held with numerous violations of the electoral process organization procedure and international standards including: instable electoral legislation and vague procedures, violation of equal opportunities principle and the principle of balanced proportion of mandates, low level of ballot papers security and violations which may be specified and voter bribery. Violations on 25 October were usually unsystematic and didn't ha...

At 8 PM, the voter turnout in Ukraine's local elections was 46.5%.

Number of violations detected by OPORA's observers during the last four hours of the voting process (from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM) remains stably low. Thus, they are not going to have a decisive effect on election outcomes, as well as do not give any reasons to question election results on this stage of election process.

The voting is being held in a regular mode, without significant abuses or planned wide-scale violations which can influence election results. Despite the number of detected violations (according to statistics) is low, tendencies that appeared in first voting hours are still there as of 4:00 PM.   

At 4 PM, the voter turnout in Ukraine's local elections was 36.2%.

  As of 12:00 PM, observers of the Civil Network OPORA reported some procedural violations that cannot be characterized as planned or systematic.