2010 Zakarpattia Oblast local election

2010 Zakarpattia Oblast local election

31 October 2010

All 108 seats to the Zakarpattia Oblast Council
55 seats needed for a majority
Turnout55.05% (6.43pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Viktor Baloha Oleksandr Ledyda Oleksandr Kemeniash
Party United Centre Party of Regions Batkivshchyna
Last election Did not exist 11.54%, 15 seats 19.22%, 25 seats
Seats won 46 37 8
Seat change New 22 17
Popular vote 125,956 96,193 45,400
Percentage 25.66% 19.59% 9.25%
Swing New 8.05pp 9.97pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
FZ
SU
Leader Robert Brovdi Mykola Kovach Mykhailo Popovych
Party Front for Change KMKSZ Strong Ukraine
Last election Did not exist 3.40%, 5 seats Did not exist
Seats won 5 3 4
Seat change New 2 New
Popular vote 32,215 20,456 16,477
Percentage 6.56% 4.17% 3.36%
Swing New 0.77pp New

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
NU
SPU
Leader Ishtvan Haydosh Ivan Mishko Ivan Svystak
Party UMDP Our Ukraine SPU
Last election 3.11%, 4 seats 23.08%, 30 seats 3.12%, 4 seats
Seats won 4 0 1
Seat change 0 30 3
Popular vote 15,351 13,778 3,478
Percentage 3.13% 2.81% 0.71%
Swing 0.02pp 20.27pp 2.41pp

Head of Council before election

Mykhailo Kichkovskyi
Our Ukraine

Elected Head of Council

Ivan Baloha
United Centre

Local elections in the Zakarpattia Oblast were held on 31 October 2010 as a part of nationwide local elections in Ukraine the same day. Newly founded United Centre of the former Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine Viktor Baloha has won the election, receiving 25,7% of the vote and 46 seats in the 108-seats Oblast Council.

In Uzhhorod, despite coming second in the party-list election, United Centre won the election, with 18 seats in the City Council, followed by Party of Regions and Batkivshchyna. While the mayoral election was won by the former (2002–2006) Mayor Viktor Pohorelov, who received 33,7% of the vote, 9 points ahead of the incumbent Serhiy Ratushniak.