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Upcoming Elections

  • Subnational - Legislative (Tentative)
    October 31, 2010
  • Parliamentary
    2012

Ukraine

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President Viktor YANUKOVYCH
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Mykola AZAROV
  • Assembly: Ukraine has a unicameral Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) with 450 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
  • In the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) 450 members are elected 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.)

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - 2012
  • Subnational - Legislative - October 31, 2010

Past elections

Last Updated on 06/21/2010

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