Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
🗓 2006-03-26
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The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. Election campaigning officially began on July 7, 2005. Between November 26 and December 31, 2005 party lists of candidates has been formed.
This election to the Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada held according to the proportional election system that is in a single nation wide electorial district with votes being allocated to the political parties or election blocs rather than to individual candidates. In the previous parliamentary elections half of parliamentary prepresentatives (deputies) were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected in single-mandate constituencies.
The constition was amended in 2005 following negoitiations and agreements during the 2004 presidential elections abolishing single member and replacing them with an increased multi-member proportional representation. The amended constitution, which took effect on January 1, 2006, also transferred some power from the President to the parliament making it a parliamentary-presidential democracy.
According to election law and system adopted, the political parties or election blocs need to collect at least 3% of the national vote in order to gain seats in the parliament.
The election is taking place now. The first election places opened its doors at the embassies of Ukraine in Australia and Japan. Election places are open from 7:00am until 10:00pm local time (without a break).
The first public announcement by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on the preliminary election results will be held at 10:00am (Kyiv time) on Monday, March 27.
Polls
According to earlier polls, front-runners are Party of Regions on 34%, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc on 24%, as well as President Yushchenko's People's Union Our Ukraine.
Two other political forces that are virtually assured to pass a 3% barrier are the Socialist Party of Ukraine headed by Oleksander Moroz and the bloc of the current Speaker of Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Lytvyn (based on his former Agrarian Party of Ukraine renamed to the People's Party).
The Communist Party of Ukraine, which has progressively received less and less votes with each election (25% in 1998, 20% in 2002), is expected to continue their decline in voter support.
Whilst some parties have nominated over 400 candidates, it is unlikely that any single Party will elect over 200 members. In order to form a Government, under Ukraine's constitution, parties will need to form a coalition with two or more voting blocks within the first month following the declaration of the polls.