Information about the course of the voting process as of 8 p.m.

OPORA had been monitoring the overall situation in district #205 on the election day, and watched whether precinct election commissions adhere to the main electoral procedures.

On the final stage of the voting process (from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.), most of the conflicts between electoral stakeholders emerged due to the presence of unauthorized persons on meetings of election commissions. OPORA has detected such instances at almost one third (29%) part of polling stations in the district.

The voters took pictures of their ballots at almost 10% of polling stations. Officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained persons who committed such criminal offence after official observers, mass media representatives, and members of election commissions intruded.

During the last four hours of the voting process, OPORA's correspondents who covered the course of election process at precincts have also noticed incidents of the violation of the voting secrecy at 6% of polling stations.

At 6% of polling stations, observers noticed incidents with indirect voter bribery features, aimed to illegally influence voters' choice. At 6% of polling stations, OPORA's correspondents were illegally removed from poling sites and, therefore were deprived of the possibility to observe elections.

Civil Network OPORA has been analyzing voter turnout throughout the election day as a part of the parallel vote tabulation. As of 8 p.m., the voter turnout of by-election of an MP of Ukraine in district #205 was 35.2%.