Kirovohrad Oblast Council

Kirovohrad Oblast Council
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	1
Leadership
Speaker	Serhii Shulga
Structure
Seats	64
Political groups	15 Fatherland 14 Servant of the People 11 Opposition Platform — For Life 9 European Solidarity 5 For the Future 5 Proposition 5 Radical Party
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020[1]
Meeting place
Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast
Website
https://oblrada.kr.ua/

The Kirovohrad Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Кіровоградська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kirovohrad Oblast (province) located in central 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 elections

• 15 Fatherland
• 14 Servant of the People
• 11 Opposition Platform — For Life
• 9 European Solidarity
• 5 For the Future
• 5 Proposition
• 5 Radical Party

Election date was 25 October 2020[3]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

• 14 Solidarity
• 14 Fatherland
• 13 Opposition Bloc
• 6 Radical Party
• 5 UKROP
• 4 Self Reliance
• 4 Svoboda
• 4 Our Land

Election date was 25 October 2015[4]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

• Vitaly Ishchenko (1939–1941, 1943–1949)
• Vasily Komyakhov (1949–1953)
• Grigory Turbay (1953–1963)
• Leonid Kravchenko (1963–1964, industrial)
• Grigory Turbay (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Nikolai Kirichenko (1964–1965)
• Pyotr Koshevsky (1965–1973)
• Dmitry Maksimenko (1973–1980)
• Volodymyr Zheliba (1980–1990)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1990–1991)

Regional council

• Volodymyr Zheliba (1991–1992)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1992)
• Volodymyr Dolynyak (1992–1994)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1994–1999)
• Vasyl Sibirtsev (1999–2006)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (2006–2010)
• Mykola Kovalchuk (2010–2014)
• Oleksandr Chornoivanenko (2014–2020)
• Serhiy Shulga (since 2020)

References

1. Results of the 2020 elections of the Kirovohrad Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
2. "Elections in Kharkiv Region: Kernes' Son in the Regional Council and Local Success "Servants of the People"". The Ukrainian Week (in Ukrainian). 10 November 2020.
   "How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
3. Results of the 2020 elections of the Kirovohrad Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
4. Results. Central Electorate Commission