Country Profile:

Ukraine

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

Last Updated on 02/08/2010