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Ukraine Ukraine Region: Europe

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Viktor A. YUSHCHENKO *
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Yulia TYMOSHENKO
• Assembly: Ukraine has a unicameral Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) with 450 seats.

* The electoral system is two-round.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) 450 members are allocated through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms.***

*** There is one, nationwide constituency and a 3% threshold. Before 2006, Ukraine used a mixed system: 225 seats closed-list, 225 seats in two-round single-seat constituencies.

Population:

• Population: 45,700,395 (July 2009 est.)

Past elections

• Presidential
  Second Round - February 7, 2010
• Presidential
  First Round - January 17, 2010
• Parliamentary - September 30, 2007
• Parliamentary - March 26, 2006
• Presidential
  Third Round - December 26, 2004
• Presidential
  Second Round - November 21, 2004
• Presidential
  First Round - October 31, 2004
• Parliamentary - March 31, 2002
• Referendum - April 16, 2000
• Presidential
  Second Round - November 14, 1999
• Presidential
  First Round - October 31, 1999
• Parliamentary - March 29, 1998

Last Updated on 02/08/2010