As Little As 30% of Deputies of Oblast and City Councils Run to Be Re-Elected at Local Elections

Civil Network OPORA analyzed how many deputies of Oblast and city councils managed to be re-elected in 2020.

Oblast Councils

In total, of the 1,659 Oblast council deputies, as little as 477 had been the elects in the previous convocation, according to the Central Election Commission. Thus, in 2020, 28.75% of deputies only were re-elected to Oblast councils.

However, in different regions of Ukraine, the “success stories” of the deputies varied. Thus, the most conservative Oblast council in this regard was in Ivano-Frankivsk where 44% of the deputies from the previous convocation were re-elected in 2020. The data is more modest in Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy Oblast councils – 37.5%.

On the other hand, under 25% of deputies were re-elected to 4 of 22 Oblast councils: Poltava – 23.8%, Vinnytsia – 22.6%, Zaporizhzhia – 21.4%, and Dnipropetrovsk – only 20%.

At the same time, in numerical terms, Kharkiv Oblast council had the most of re-elected new deputies – 38.

City Councils of Oblast Centers

The situation is similar with the re-election of deputies for city councils in Oblast centers. Here, 30.8% of deputies, 385 persons of 1,248 ran for re-election (for Kyiv Oblast, we accounted for Bila Tserkva, for Donetsk Oblast – for Kramatorsk).

The highest trust levels are enjoyed by city council deputies of Ivano-Frankivsk – 47.6% of deputies come from the previous convocation. The numbers are slightly lower in Sumy city council – 45.2%, Dnipro city council – 43.75%, and Odesa city council – 40.6%.

Again, the city councils that have been updated the most are in Poltava – only 14.3% of deputies from the previous convocation, Cherkasy – 14.3%, and Mykolayiv – 11.1%.

In numerical terms, the leaders in the number of re-elected deputies are found in the capital city – 46 of the 120 mandates.

City Councils in Ukraine’s Cities

In addition, OPORA analysts examined the changes in the membership of councils in 141 cities in Ukraine, from the former category of “Oblast capital status cities.” Of the 5,089 incumbent deputies, 1,464 (28.8%) used to be the deputies in the previous convocation.

In total, 50% and above of the deputies were re-elected to five city councils: Druzhkivka (Donetsk region) – 55.9%, Izmail (Odesa region) – 55.3%, Marhanets (Dnipropetrovsk region), Truskavets (Lviv region), and Ochakiv (Mykolaiv region) – 50% in each.

On the other hand, under 10% of deputies won the elections for the second time in four cities: Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) – 9.3% (5 deputies), Uman (Cherkasy Oblast) – 7.9% (3), Selidove (Donetsk Oblast) – 7.7% (2), and Mohyliv-Podilskyi (Vinnytsia Oblast) – 2.9% (one deputy only – Bznuni Karen Burtelovych).

More detailed lists of all cities and the indicators thereon are available at the link.

For information. The data used by the Civil Network OPORA in the report were collected in machine-assisted way from the website of the Central Election Commission for 2015 and 2020 . The method could have impacted their completeness and accuracy.