What kind of punishment is imposed for voting rights violations? Who might get into a jail and for what? OPORA has prepared a 30-minute video to give you a chance take conscious decision.On 15 November 2015, the second round of mayoral election is to be held in cities having over 90 thousand voters, where none of the candidates took 50% +1 vote in the first round on 25 October.As of 3 November, OPORA has already detected 1332 violations during the local election campaign. It should be mention...

Today, on 30 October, village, settlement and city election commissions should approve the elected heads on the basis of tabulation protocols on the results of village, settlement and city heads elections, schedule the second round or recognize the election as not held. Oblast, city and raion in city TECs are obliged to recognize election outcomes in multi-mandate election district till 4 November.

On 27 October 2015, the Central Election Commission passed a Resolution #515 on Explanations concerning application of some regulations of the Law of Ukraine on Local Elections when determining the voting results in mayoral election. According to the Explanations, the second round shall not be conducted if information about application of absolute majority system in mayoral election was announced within the established time constraints, but the number of voters in voter lists at polling stati...

According to the parallel vote tabulation based on 100% of protocols in elections to Odesa City Council, party ‘Trust Deeds’ gains the highest number of votes – 32.86% (85,706 votes), and Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity' took the second place with almost twice smaller percentage – 17.46% (45,542 votes). Opposition Bloc is on the third place in the race with 14.49% (37,800 votes). Two more parties have managed to overcome the electoral threshold: Ukrainian Marine Party – 6.94% and Sa...

According to the parallel vote tabulation based on 100% of protocols in elections to Dnipropetrovsk City Council, Opposition Bloc party receives the highest number of votes with 30.54% (99,600 votes), and UKROP party is on the second place with 25.02% (81,595 votes). Three more parties have also managed to overcome %5 the electoral threshold: Hromadska Syla (8.99% or 29,308 votes), Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity' (7.49% or 24 421 votes) and Samopomich Union (5.97% or 19 463 votes)....

Civil Network OPORA conducts parallel vote tabulation in three cities of Ukraine: Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk.  According to the data from 98% of processed protocols, the results of Kharkiv mayoral elections are the following.

Local elections in Ukraine were held with numerous violations of the electoral process organization procedure and international standards including Main drawbacks concerned instable electoral legislation and vague procedures, violation of equal opportunities principle and the principle of balanced proportion of mandates, low level of ballot papers security and violations which may be specified and voter bribery. However, Civil Network OPORA affirms that election day violations were usually un...

According to the preliminary findings of the OPORA, local elections were held with numerous violations of the electoral process organization procedure and international standards including: instable electoral legislation and vague procedures, violation of equal opportunities principle and the principle of balanced proportion of mandates, low level of ballot papers security and violations which may be specified and voter bribery. Violations on 25 October were usually unsystematic and didn't ha...