Odesa Oblast Council Explained

Odesa Oblast Council
Coa Pic:	Coat of Arms of Odesa Oblast m.svg
Session Room:	Building of Regional Administration and Regional Council of Odessa Oblast.jpg
House Type:	Unicameral
Houses:	1
Leader1 Type:	Chairman
Leader1:	Hrihoriy Didenko
Party1:	Servant of the People
Members:	84
Structure1:	Розподіл мандатів в Одеській обласній раді 8-го скликання.svg
Structure1 Res:	250px
Last Election1:	25 October 2020^[1]
Meeting Place:	Odesa, Odesa Oblast
Website:	https://oblrada.od.gov.ua/

The Odesa Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Одеська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Odesa Oblast located in Southern Ukraine.

Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.^[2]

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local electionsElection date was 25 October 2020^[3]

Note: The faction Opposition Platform — For Life ceased to exist on 26 March 2022. 18 deputies joined the newly formed deputy group "Our House Ukraine".^[4]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local electionsElection date was 25 October 2015^[5]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

• Yakov Pakhomov (1932–1933)
• Fyodor Golub (1933–1935)
• Pyotr Boyko (1935–1937)
• Nikolai Volkov (1937, acting)
• Philip Shevtsov (1937, acting)
• Grigory Galchenko (1937–1938)
• Nikifor Kalchenko (1938–1941)
• Iosif Gorlov (1944–1946)
• Konstantin Karavayev (1946–1953)
• Nikolai Gureev (1953–1954)
• Alexander Fedoseev (1954–1958)
• Mikhail Khorunzhiy (1958–1963)
• Mikhail Khorunzhiy (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Konstantin Kovalenko (1963–1964, industrial)
• Mikhail Khorunzhiy (1964–1969)
• Andrei Dudnik (1969–1971)
• Viktor Pokhodin (1971–1985)
• Andrey Pecherov (1985–1990)
• Anatoliy Butenko (1990–1991)
• Rouslan Bodelan (1991–1992)

Regional council

• Rouslan Bodelan (1990–1998)
• Yuriy Kazakov (1998–2000)
• Serhiy Hrynevetsky (2000–2002)
• Volodymyr Novatskyi (2002–2005)
• Serhiy Hrynevetsky (2005)
• Fedor Vlad (2005–2006)
• Mykola Skoryk (2006–2010)
• Mykola Pundyk (2010–2013)
• Mykola Tindyuk (2013–2014)
• Oleksiy Honcharenko (2014)
• Mykhailo Shmushkovych (2014–2015)
• Anatoliy Urbanskyi (2015–2019)
• Serhiy Paraschenko (2019–2020)
• Hryhorii Didenko (since 2020)

Notes and References

1. https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vm2020/pvm057pid112=12pid102=9473pf7691=9473pt001f01=695rej=0pt00_t001f01=695.html Results of the 2020 elections of the Odesa Oblast Council
2. News: Elections in Kharkiv Region: Kernes' Son in the Regional Council and Local Success "Servants of the People" . . 10 November 2020. Ukrainian.
   News: How to win elections under the new Electoral Code. . 19 July 2020. Ukrainian.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20220225070545/https://cvk.gov.ua/pls/vm2020/pvm057pid112=12pid102=9473pf7691=9473pt001f01=695rej=0pt00_t001f01=695.html Results of the 2020 elections of the Odesa Oblast Council
4. In the Odesa regional council there is no more OPZZh, 18 people's deputies joined the newly created group "Our house Ukraine", (26 March 2022)
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20170307050719/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vm2015/PVM057?PID112=12&PID102=9473&PF7691=9473&PT001F01=100&rej=0&pt00_t001f01=100 Results