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Article Elections

21 February 2019

Almost fake: civic observation of presidential election in Ukraine

Independent election observation is aimed to facilitate a fair election process, promote its openness and publicity, prevent and report electoral violations. Meanwhile, the Central Election Commission has accredited 139 civic organizations to deploy official observers. We will try to understand which aims civic and international observers have, what is a fake election observation, and what is behind those 139 civic organizations.

Article Elections

01 August 2018

The stealing of elections in Kyiv oblast by the devil. Tale #2: The disappearance of carriage

Can you feel certain that the winning candidate for deputy, whom you supported in the elections, will gain a deputy seat in local council? The correct answer is “of course you can’t”. We will tell the story how the political party was deprived of more than 100 votes in the process of allocation of deputy seats so as to prevent it from clearing the electoral threshold.

Article Elections

01 August 2018

The stealing of elections in Kyiv oblast by the devil. Tale #1: impersonation of the elect

In November 2015, elections were stolen from the citizens of Kyiv oblast. “How elections could have been stolen?” – you'd ask. They were held, of course, but mandates were given not to the candidates who won them under this electoral system.

Article Elections

05 October 2017

The Most Humane Court in the World

An effective appeal system guarantees democratic elections.

Article Parliament

23 June 2016

How to make the Parliament do the job

Reforming the Rules of Parliamentary Procedure: not much European recommendations implemented

Article Parliament

15 April 2015

Is the coalition efficient?

In spite of post-electoral forecasts, such a "wide" coalition between five factions has demonstrated it can coordinate interests and prevent acute political conflicts.

Article Elections

13 November 2014

Statistical search for forgery in vote count results

Benford's Law, also called the First-Digit Law, is often used to verify numeric data for fraud or manipulations. Main principle of the Law: "the digits in real world appear disproportionately. The smaller number, the more frequently it appears." According to the Law, digit 1 appears goes first in 30% of numbers, digit 2 - in 17.6%, and 9 - only in 4.58%. This law was proved many times: river pool areas, population of countries, height of buildings, financial and sociological data – all of...

Article Elections

06 November 2014

No votes for communists

While processing the voting results, we noticed an interesting fact: there are polling stations, where the certain parties didn't receive any votes. For example, the People's Front didn't receive any votes at 131 polling stations, the Petro Poroshenko Block – at 73 polls. However, the most interesting is how many polling stations gave zero votes for the Communist Party of Ukraine? Taking into consideration the latest events and statements if the President of Ukraine, the fact that...

Article Elections

04 November 2014

Correlation between the levels of party support on early parliamentary elections

It's possible to calculate a number of interdependence indicators on the basis of voting results, published on the site of the Central Election Commission. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient and correlation diagrams to show citizen moods in voting process. As a result, we received illustrative and simple correlation scheme. We can see on this scheme parties which were stealing each other's electorate and created excessive competition. Having included to voter turnout into the...

Article Elections

21 October 2014

Joint information portrait of party list candidates

To continue the topic of information portraits of MP candidates in Early Parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2014, OPORA made a joint portrait of party list candidates.

Article Elections

07 October 2014

Joint information portrait of majoritarian candidates

This article is based on information about majoritarian candidates, published on website of the CEC. As long as average citizens cannot analyze all the data, we created a joint information portrait of parliamentary candidates.

Article Elections

27 September 2014

How the approximate number of voters has changed in Ukraine for 2014

According to the calculation by the second level, the absolute maximum of increase was noticed in Dnipropetrovsk oblast: 45,925 persons (+1.76%). The maximum decrease was noticed in Kyiv: 3,251 (-0.15%). Relative indicators are the following: the maximum increase - 2.49% (Chernihiv oblast); the maximum decrease - minus 0.15% (Kyiv city).