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 |
Image1 Size: | x150px |
Popular Vote1: | 4,827 |
Image2 Size: | x150px |
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 |
Image3 Size: | x150px |
Swing3: | New |
Image4: | Arseniy Yatsenyuk 2011-09-28.jpg |
Leader4: | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
Party4: | Batkivshchyna |
Popular Vote4: | 4,054 |
Percentage4: | 19.85 |
Swing4: | 13.28pp |
Image4 Size: | x150px |
Image5 Size: | x150px |
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 |
Image6 Size: | x150px |
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.
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.
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.