By-election of an MP of Ukraine in district #179 (cantered in the city of Krasnohrad, Kharkiv oblast), is scheduled for 15 March 2020. The by-election in single-mandate district is being held because Oleksii Kucher, who was elected as an MP in early parliamentary elections in July 2019, became the Head of Kharkiv State Administration. The district comprises the city of Lozova, settlements in Lozova, Zachepylivka, Kehychivka, Krasnohrad, and Sakhnovschyna raions of Kharkiv oblast. The voting w...

The by-election of MP of Ukraine in single-mandate district #179 (Kharkiv oblast) is scheduled for 15 March 2020, since the current Head of Kharkiv Oblast State Administration Oleksii Kucherhas has resigned. The election process has officially began on January 16, and its results should be determined not later than the fifteenth day after the voting day. This election will be held under the Law of Ukraine on the Election of People's Deputies of Ukraine, according to transitional provisions of...

Civil Network OPORA had been conducting an expert poll from August 26 to September 26, 2019, dedicated to administrative resource in prisons during the last presidential and parliamentary elections. Our main goal was to find out the opinion of the human rights environment on whether the voting in prisons was free, to identify problems in organization of the voting process in prisons and typical violations there. The poll summarizes assessments from human rights defenders and OPORA's electoral...

The CEC haven't received the final financial report on expenses from campaign fund from almost half of majoritarian candidates. 47 of them were elected as MPs. These are the results of analysis made by Civil Network OPORA.

On 3 August meeting, the Central Election Commission announced results of early parliamentary elections in the nationwide multi-mandate district. Official results coincided with the results of parallel vote tabulation realized by Civil Network OPORA.

If we took all the namesake candidates registered for 21 July 2019 early parliamentary elections, we could make a separate party list with at least 150 candidates.

Verkhovna Rada of IX convocation will undergo 80.4% renewal. Besides that, membership of the Parliament will become younger by 7.4 years, as long as the number of newly-elected future MPs, aged from 21 to 45, has increased by 26%. We received this data from electronic protocols on CEC's website, which are almost completely processed. Civil Network OPORA decided to analyze the age, gender, education, and working experience of candidates, which are soon going to become Members of Parliament. Ba...

OPORA deployed 1398 trained and accredited PVT Observers to a nationally representative, random sample of polling stations. PVT Observers evaluated the quality of the Election Day process and recorded the official results. The PVT is a nonpartisan exercise conducted solely by OPORA with the intent of providing independent information on the integrity of the process and the veracity of the official results. Unlike exit polls, PVTs do not ask citizens how they voted, rather they rely on trained...

During the election day, observers of the Civil Network OPORA did not identify any systemic violations of election law or conflicts that would destabilize the course of voting or have any significant impact on citizen voting results. However, frequent and recurrent procedural violations made by polling station election commissions and the incompetence or illegitimate intentions of voters had a negative effect on the course of election process on election day on July, 21, 2019.