Results of the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election in the foreign electoral district explained

Election Name:2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election in the foreign electoral district
Country:Ukraine
Type:parliamentary
Next Election:2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Previous Election:2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Turnout:4.85% (1.15pp)
Election Date:28 October 2012
Party1:Svoboda (political party)
Leader1:Oleh Tyahnybok
Percentage1:23.63%
Previous Year:2007
Next Year:2014
Registered:424,536 (8,406)
Image1:Oleh Tyahnybok 2012-10-01.jpg
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Popular Vote1:4,827
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Leader2:Mykola Azarov
Party2:Party of Regions
Percentage2:23.27%
Popular Vote2:4,753
Swing2:3.18pp
Swing1:21.35pp
Leader3:Vitali Klitschko
Party3:Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform
Percentage3:22.11
Popular Vote3:4,517
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Swing3:New
Image4:Arseniy Yatsenyuk 2011-09-28.jpg
Leader4:Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Party4:Batkivshchyna
Popular Vote4:4,054
Percentage4:19.85
Swing4:13.28pp
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Leader5:Petro Symonenko
Party5:Communist Party of Ukraine
Popular Vote5:707
Percentage5:3.46
Swing5:1.82pp
Image6:Wiktor Juschtschenko, Präsident der Ukraine, in der Universität Zürich.jpg
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Leader6:Viktor Yushchenko
Party6:Our Ukraine (political party)
Popular Vote6:428
Percentage6:2.09
Swing6:23.43pp
Map Size:350px
Prime Minister
Before Election:Mykola Azarov
Before Party:Party of Regions
After Election:Mykola Azarov
After Party:Party of Regions

See main article: 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election was held on 28 October 2012, where 424,536 diaspora voters could vote.

The foreign electoral district in Ukraine doesn't attribute seats to the diaspora, and overseas citizens could vote only in the party-list section of the election, which is responsible for choosing half of the Verkhovna Rada composition, which is 225 seats.

Background

Ukraine has approximately 10 million of its citizens living abroad with a right to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections. However, Ukrainian electoral law does not allow, nor does it have any mechanisms for postal or early voting, which complicates voting for people in countries without embassies or consulates, resulting in low turnout each election. Both the government and political parties usually ignore and neglect overseas voters, with the latter refusing to campaign and mobilize diaspora. Still, pro-European and nationalist forces usually overperform in the expatriate voting, compared to nationwide overall results.

Results per polling stations/embassies

In 2012, the foreign electoral district was composed of 117 polling stations in 77 countries, however, some polling stations have been a home for voters from multiple countries, e.g. the Embassy of Ukraine to Singapore, where Ukrainians living in Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei could vote.

Below is the result of the election in the numerical order of the polling stations, with some countries' stations, like Italy, which has three separate ones, combined into a single result table.