2008 Kyiv local election explained

Election Name:2008 Kyiv local elections
Previous Election:2006 Kyiv local election
Previous Year:2006
Next Election:2014 Kyiv local election
Next Year:2014
Country:Kyiv
Election Date:25 May 2008
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Election Name:Mayoral election
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Turnout:54.27%
Image1:Черновецький Леонід Михайлович 2006 (1) (cropped).jpg
Candidate1:Leonid Chernovetskyi
Party1:ChLPU
Alliance1:Chernovetskyi Bloc
Popular Vote1:431,561
Percentage1:37.77%
Colour1:fbf73a
Candidate2:Oleksandr Turchynov
Party2:Batkivshchyna
Alliance2:Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Popular Vote2:218,670
Percentage2:19.14%
Colour2:CC193B
Image4:Vitali Klitschko 2009 01 27 (cropped).jpg
Candidate4:Vitali Klitschko
Party4:Independent
Alliance4:Klitschko Bloc
Popular Vote4:205,316
Percentage4:17.97%
Colour4:D20000
Image5:НДУ 6 Пилипишин Віктор Петрович.jpg
Candidate5:Viktor Pylypyshyn
Party5:People's Party (Ukraine)
Alliance5:Lytvyn Bloc
Popular Vote5:76,801
Percentage5:6.72%
Colour5:01B8A4
Mayor
Before Election:Leonid Chernovetskyi
Before Party:Chernovetskyi Bloc
After Election:Leonid Chernovetskyi
After Party:Chernovetskyi Bloc
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Election Name:City Council election
Ongoing:no
Seats For Election:All 120 seats in the Kyiv City Council
Majority Seats:61
Party1:Chernovetskyi Bloc
Color1:
  1. fbf73a
Leader1:Leonid Chernovetskyi
Last Election1:21
Seats1:43
Popular Vote1:350,700
Percentage1:30.45
Party2:Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Leader2:Yulia Tymoshenko
Last Election2:41
Seats2:32
Popular Vote2:262,500
Percentage2:22.79
Party3:Klitschko Bloc
Color3:
  1. D20000
Leader3:Vitali Klitschko
Last Election3:15
Seats3:15
Popular Vote3:122,243
Percentage3:10.61
Party4:Lytvyn Bloc
Leader4:Viktor Pylypyshyn
Percentage4:8.17
Seats4:11
Last Election4:6
Colour5:
  1. F59A19
Percentage5:5.95
Seats5:8
Last Election5:7
Party6:Party of Regions
Leader6:Vasyl Horbal
Percentage6:3.95
Seats6:6
Last Election6:9
Party7:Katerynchuk Bloc
Colour7:
  1. 244690
Leader7:Mykola Katerynchuk
Percentage7:3.47
Seats7:5
Last Election7:New
Secretary
Before Election:Oles Dovgiy
Before Party:Chernovetskyi Bloc
After Election:Oles Dovgiy
After Party:Chernovetskyi Bloc
Type:presidential

Snap mayoral and city council elections were held in Kyiv on 25 May 2008. The election, originally scheduled to be held alongside nationwide 2010 local elections, was called by the Verkhovna Rada by a 246–5 vote on March 18 amid corruption allegations involving the incumbent Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi.[1] The local election determined the new Mayor of Kyiv, as well as the composition of the 120-seat Kyiv City Council.

The Ukrainian parliament assigned the job of determining the election costs to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, working in partnership with the Kyiv City Territorial Election Commission.[2] The Kyiv CTEC designated March 26 as the date for the start of election campaigning.[3]

In all, seven parties and blocs passed the 3% threshold needed to gain seats in the Kyiv City Council.[4] The incumbent Leonid Chernovetskyi was officially declared the winner of the mayoral election on May 31.[5] Yurii Lozovskyi, Secretary of the Kyiv CTEC, said that the voter turnout was estimated at 53-54%.[6] The electoral commission said that the elections were largely clear and fair without any major incidents, but that the largest electoral violation was voter shopping.[7]

Although, legally, next Kyiv local elections had to take place in 2013, eventually they were postponed and took place on 25 May 2014 as a part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections.

Candidates, parties, and blocs

In all, seventy-nine candidates were registered by the Kyiv Territorial Electoral Commission for the upcoming mayoral election.[8] Candidates from some of the main political parties included:

A total of 37 parties and blocs participated in the Kyiv City Council election. These included both national (e.g. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine) and local political parties (e.g. Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc).

Opinion polling

According to a telephone poll conducted prior to the election by the Razumkov Centre, 25.2% of the respondents said they would support Vitaliy Klychko for the position of mayor, 24.9% support Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, 10% support the former city mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, 6% support current Vice-Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov, and 5.4% said they support the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko.[15]

A different poll conducted by the Center of Political and Marketing Studies Sotsis, showed that 22.8% of the respondents support the incumbent mayor, 22% support Vitaliy Klychko, 11.5% support Oleksandr Omelchenko, 6.3% support Verkhovna Rada Deputy Mykola Tomenko, and 5.7% support Yuriy Lutsenko.[16]

Results

City Council election

Aftermath

Calls for another snap election

On 12 December 2008 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced at a news briefing that she was confident that early mayoral elections would be held again in Kyiv.[17] Day before, the Kyivenerho utility company began cutting the supply of hot water to about 5,000 homes in Kyivbecause of the Kyiv State City Administration's failure to compensate the company for the difference between the tariffs charged by Kyivenerho and the actual cost of its services. Following the event, Tymoshenko accused Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi of using money from the local budget to finance his election campaign.[18]

On 6 February 2009, the Vitali Klitschko Bloc stated it will apply to the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security and Defense Council and the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office with a request to take into consideration the unlawfulness of Chernovetskyi's actions and to call another snap mayoral elections in the city.[19]

In the January of 2010 Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn stated he started preparing a law draft to conduct an early mayoral election in Kyiv on 30 May 2010, alongside city council election. Lytvyn said that he "could not stand what was going on in Kyiv any longer" and that his own Lytvyn Bloc would take part in the election.[20] [21] A resolution setting another snap election in the capital city for the 30 May 2010 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on 18 January[22], but was never included in the agenda, being later withdrawn on 16 February.[23]

After then-incumbent Mayor Chernovetskyi had tendered his resignation on 1 June 2012[24], a petition to the parliament calling to hold an early mayoral election in the city was initiated. Although, it looked that the next Kyiv local election was set for 2012 nevertheless;[25] However, by the January 2013 the Verkhovna Rada had set no date for these elections.[26] Legally they had to take place in 2013,[27] [28] but in May 2013 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine has set the date of the election to 25 October 2015.[29]

Eventually, regular elections for the position of Mayor and 120-seats Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014 as a part of the nationwide 2014 local elections.[30]

Faction chances since the elections

Severe changes occurred in the Kyiv City Council following 2008. By the September 2011, seven new factions had been created (2 of which included just 2 deputies, and another one had only 3 deputies).[31] The winning bloc of the 2008 election, Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc, disbanded itself on September 22, 2011,[32] [33] with all of its deputies later becoming non-partisan deputies in the city council. Such move has made UDAR (Vitali Klitschko Bloc until April 2011) the biggest faction with 12 deputies (3 deputies less compared to 2008 result), followed by the Party of Regions faction with 10 deputies (4 deputies more). Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc saw 22 deputies leaving the faction since the election.

In January 2013 the UDAR faction consisted of 13 deputies, while the Party of Regions faction had fallen down to 8 deputies. This made the People's Party faction the second biggest with 11 deputies. The Democratic Party of Ukraine faction contained 10 deputies. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc had lost 1 more deputy and stood at the total of 9 deputies. Same as factions "Social Justice" and "Initiative". "Social Justice", "Initiative" and the faction of the Democratic Party of Ukraine were created in 2011.[34] [35] [36] [37] In June 2013 the People's Party faction contained 4 people. The other factions membership had stayed stable.

Following the 2008 election results, Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT), Oleksandr Turchynov (BYuT), Mykola Tomenko (BYuT), Mykola Katerynchuk (BMK), Anatoliy Khostykoyev (BYuT), Stepan Chernovetskyi (BLCh) and Tetiana Donets (BYuT), gave up their seats due to the dual mandate rule.[38] [39] [40] The next person in the party list becomes the city council deputy, when someone gives up their seat.[41]

See also

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Notes and References

  1. ,143-17. Decree of the Verkhovna Rada. 143-VI. On the designation of early elections to the deputies of the Kyiv City Rada and the Kyiv City Head. 2008-03-18.
  2. News: The Verkhovna Rada designated early elections to the Mayor of Kyiv. Korrespondent. March 18, 2008. 2008-03-21. ru.
  3. News: The election campaign in Kyiv will begin on the 26th of March. Korrespondent. March 21, 2008. 2008-03-21. ru.
  4. News: Klychko To Continue His Political Career In Ukraine. UNIAN. Ukrainian News. June 2, 2008. 2008-06-16. dead. https://archive.today/20120913202315/http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/126839.html. September 13, 2012.
  5. Web site: Черновецькому нарахували перемогу, “Наша Україна” ледь обігнала “регіони” . 2024-06-03 . Українська правда . uk.
  6. News: Almost half of Kyiv residents neglected mayor election. UNIAN. May 26, 2008. 2008-06-16.
  7. News: KEC: Elections in Kyiv were clear and fair. Korrespondent. May 26, 2008. 2008-06-16. ru.
  8. News: The end of registration of candidates for the post of Mayor of Kyiv. Korrespondent. April 23, 2008. 2008-04-24. ru.
  9. News: Parliament votes for ouster of Kiev mayor. Ukrainian Journal. March 18, 2008. 2008-03-21.
  10. News: Tyagnibok goes for the Mayor of Kyiv. Korrespondent. March 23, 2008. 2008-03-22. ru.
  11. Web site: Kyiv city organization VO "Svoboda" conducted an early party conference. 2008-03-23. March 22, 2008. Press agency of the Kyiv city organization VO "Svoboda". All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom". uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20080325191326/http://www.vosvoboda.info/ukr_txt003811. March 25, 2008. dead.
  12. News: Kaskyv is moved into the candidates for mayor. Korrespondent. April 6, 2008. 2008-04-10. ru.
  13. Web site: Tymoshenko and Lutsenko announced Turchynov the only candidate from the coalition. 2008-05-23. May 22, 2008. Korrespondent. ru.
  14. News: Kaskyv is moved into the candidates for mayor. Korrespondent. April 12, 2008. 2008-04-12. ru.
  15. News: Poll: Klichko is winning on the elections of the Mayor of Kyiv. Korrespondent. March 21, 2008. 2008-03-21. ru.
  16. News: Sotsis: Chernovetsky passes Klichko by 0.8%. Korrespondent. March 20, 2008. 2008-03-21. ru.
  17. http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/168755.html Tymoshenko Confident That Early Mayoral Elections Will Be Repeated In Kyiv
  18. http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/168745.html Cabinet Of Ministers To Consider Problems Arising In Kyiv
  19. http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/179202.html Klychko Bloc In Kyiv Council Seeking Early Termination Of Chernovetskyi's Powers
  20. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/56541/ Lytvyn wants early mayoral elections
  21. http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-356148.html Lytvyn believes that today there are enough grounds for early election of Kyiv Mayor and Kyiv Council
  22. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/57381/ Draft resolution to oust Kyiv mayor registered in parliament
  23. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/59639/ Ukrainian parliament cancels mayor's election date of May 30
  24. http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/hereha-sends-petition-to-parliament-on-holding-of--310160.html Hereha sends petition to parliament on holding of early mayoral election in Kyiv
  25. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/90367/ Party of Regions leader: 'Pre-term mayoral elections in Kyiv are pointless'
  26. http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/lytvyn-date-for-mayoral-election-in-kyiv-to-be-determined-after-parliamentary-elections-312198.html Lytvyn: Date for mayoral election in Kyiv to be determined after parliamentary elections
  27. http://www.interfax.co.uk/ukraine-news/cec-member-kyiv-city-council-to-be-elected-for-five-years-in-upcoming-election/ CEC member: Kyiv City Council to be elected for five years in upcoming election
  28. http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/rada-suggests-to-hold-elections-of-kyiv-mayor-city-council-on-june-2-321408.html Rada suggests to hold elections of Kyiv mayor, city council on June 2
  29. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/155007.html Local elections in Kyiv should be held in 2015, according to Constitutional Court
  30. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/192688.html Parliament sets elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council deputies for May 25
  31. Голови депутатських фракцій та груп Київради VI скликання, Kyiv City Council
  32. http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-458264.html Faction of Chernovetksyi's Bloc stopped its existence
  33. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/113318/ Chernovetsky Bloc in Kyiv City Council disbanded
  34. Онлайн-конференція з лідером громадської організації "Соціальна справедливість", кандидатом в депутати ВР Аллою Шлапак, RBC Ukraine (23 August 2012)
  35. У Київраді створена депутатська фракція "Демократична партія України", RBC Ukraine (10 November 2011)
  36. http://www.rbc.ua/ukr/top/show/v-kievsovete-sozdany-tri-novye-fraktsii-25052011115300 У Київраді створено три нові фракції
  37. http://www.rbc.ua/ukr/newsline/show/v-kievsovete-sozdany-dve-novye-fraktsii---deputatskaya-gruppa-23062011105500 У Київраді створено дві нові фракції - депутатська група "Соціальна справедливість" і фракція "Спортивний Київ", - Герега
  38. Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
  39. http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/58995 They Call Themselves the Opposition
  40. Тетяна Донець: Я не хрещениця Лазаренка, але мій тато хрестив його доньку, Ukrayinska Pravda (10 Augustus 2012)
  41. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/55678/ Mayor's son to give up his seat in city council

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