Here, we’re keeping track of the vote count in the July 21 parliamentary election. For the live updates from Election Day, see this story.
Ukraine voted for its new parliament on July 21. The vote count goes on, both in the party vote (225 members) and single-member districts (199 members).
In the early hours of July 26, five days after the election, the Central Election Commission finished the vote count.
Here’s how the seats in the parliament were divided:
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6:06 p.m. – The Servant of the People won in all of Ukraine’s districts, except for the Donbas, the city of Lviv and the west of Odesa Oblast, according to party-list representation. The Servant of the People won in districts of Lviv Oblast outside Lviv and ranked second in the region overall, while the Voice party ranked first. See a map here.
2:37 p.m. — In single-member district No. 105 in Luhansk Oblast, Serhiy Medvedchuk — brother of Opposition Platform – For Life leader Viktor Medvedchuk — has lost to his challenger, Viktoria Hryb of the Opposition Bloc. With 100 percent of the ballots counted, Hryb received 39.6 percent compared to Medvedchuk’s 31.7 percent.
Both Opposition Bloc and Opposition Platform are pro-Russian parties. They were a single party, called Opposition Bloc, until November 2018 when they split due to internal disagreements.
The Opposition Platform has largely stolen the mantle of pro-Russian politics from the Bloc. It has won over 13 percent of the party-list vote to gain 38 seats in parliament and has taken another seven seats in single-member districts. Opposition Bloc did not even make it into parliament through the party list vote, but has taken five seats so far in single-member districts.
11:32 a.m. Election commission members in Odesa’s District 135 have left, and the vote counting process has halted, Hromadske television reported. The district has been held by Serhiy Kivalov, an influential ex-ally of former President Viktor Yanukovych, since 1998. But he appears to be losing this time.
With 78.78 percent of the votes counted, Kivalov received 32 percent of the vote, while his competitor from the Servant of the People party, Oleksiy Leonov, won with 40 percent.
11:23 — An update on single-member district No. 118 in Lviv Oblast, where the Voice party alleged vote rigging. Voice’s candidate Halyna Vasylchenko has won the district, taking 31.5 percent of the vote. Her closest competitor Bohdan Dubnevych, a lawmaker from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, received 30. 1 percent. He has conceded.
10:24 a.m. To see who won and lost at individual polling stations, you can check this map.
10:20 p.m. — Viktor Baloga, a notorious politician and businessman, will return to parliament for the fourth time.
Baloga won the election in a single-member district No. 69 in Zakarpattya Oblast, getting 35.8 percent of the vote— just a little over 1 percent more than his contender, Edgar Tokar, a representative of the Servant of the People. This is the third time Baloga is elected for parliament in this district. Baloga represents his own party, Yedyny Center.
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9:51 p.m. — Halyna Vasylchenko from the Voice party has overtaken Bohdan Dubnevych, a lawmaker from ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc, in Lviv Oblast’s District 118. With 97.8 percent of the votes counted, Vasylchenko got 31.5 percent, and Dubnevych got 30.39 percent.
Previously rock star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, head of the Voice party, had accused Dubnevych of rigging the election in Lviv Oblast’s District 118. Dubnevych denied the accusations.
According to exit polls, Dubnevych received 22.9 percent, and Vasylchenko got 36.3 percent, Vakarchuk said.
6:40 p.m. — With 76 percent of the ballots counted in the party vote, these are the results:
6 p.m. — Two winners of Kyiv Post’s Top 30 Under 30 award were elected to the parliament.
Activist Solomia Bobrovska, a 2017 winner, is No. 9 on the Voice party list, which is about to get 18 seats.
Comedian and producer Roman Hryshchuk, also a 2017 winner, is winning the race in the single-member district No. 222 in Kyiv.
4:29 p.m. — Reformist lawmaker Sergii Leshchenko lost in District 220 in Kyiv. He received 12 percent, while Hanna Bondar from the Servant of the People won with 37 percent, according to preliminary results.
3:16 p.m. — Rock star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, head of the Voice party, accused Bogdan Dubnevych, a lawmaker from President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc, of rigging the election in Lviv Oblast’s District 118. Dubnevych denied the accusations.
According to exit polls, Dubnevych received 22.9 percent, and Halyna Vasylchenko from Voice got 36.3 percent, Vakarchuk said.
According to preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission, Dubnevych and Vasylchenko got 33 percent and 30 percent, respectively. As of now, 90 percent of the votes have been counted.
Bogdan Dubnevych and his brother Yaroslav are being investigated over alleged embezzlement while supplying equipment to Ukraine’s state railway monopoly Ukrzaliznytsya. The Dubnevych brothers are also being investigated over allegedly embezzling natural gas worth Hr 1.4 billion at state oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz Ukrainy. They have denied the accusations.
2:36 p.m. — Billionaire Kostyantyn Zhevago lost in Poltava Oblast’s District 150. He received 25 percent, and Oleksiy Movchan from the Servant of the People scored a victory with 41 percent, according to preliminary results.
2:10 p.m. Kherson Oblast’s former Deputy Governor Yevhen Ryshchuk, an ex-member of former President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc, was defeated in Kherson Oblast’s District 186, getting 19 percent. Oleksiy Kovalyov from the Servant of the People won with 36 percent, according to preliminary data.
Whistleblower Kateryna Gandziuk’s father Viktor and the “Who Killed Katya Gandziuk?” group on Facebook have accused Ryshchuk of being implicated in her murder. He has denied the accusations.
Gandziuk died in a hospital on Nov. 4 from injuries suffered in an acid attack.
1:53 p.m. — Boryslav Rozenblat, an ex-member of former President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc, suffered a humiliating defeat in Zhytomyr Oblast’s District 62, getting just 6.62 percent, according to preliminary voting results. Igor Gerasimenko from the Servant of the People won a landslide with 47.72 percent.
Rozenblat has been charged by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine with taking bribes worth about $300,000 to initiate laws on amber production, organize an illegal amber mining scheme and bribe other officials, judges and prosecutors for that purpose. He has denied the accusations.
1:28 p.m. — Serhiy Kivalov, an influential ex-ally of former President Viktor Yanukovych, lost in Odesa’s District 135, according to preliminary data. He received 31.84 percent of the vote, while his competitor from the Servant of the People party, Oleksiy Leonov, won with 40.41 percent.
12:42 p.m. — Several members of District 94‘s election commission in Kyiv Oblast left at 1.30 a.m., leaving the commission without a quorum and blocking its work, the Opora election watchdog reported. By 6 a.m., more commission members arrived, and its work resumed. The police on July 21 opened a criminal case against members of the commission, accusing them of refusing to carry out their work.
On July 21, the commission also refused to accept the appointment of new commission members delegated by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy’s Samopomich Party.
Oleksandr Dubinsky from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party had earlier accused Igor Kononenko, an ex-lawmaker from former President Petro Poroshenko’s party, of “buying” seats on the district election commission from Samopomich. Sadovy’s party denied the accusations and later appointed new members. Dubinsky has also accused Kononenko of controlling the commission and preparing voting fraud, which was denied by Kononenko.
Dubinsky won with 36.2 percent in the district, while Kononenko got 14.55 percent, according to the Central Election Commission. As of now, 26 percent of voting reports have been counted in the district.
10:54 a.m. — Again, it looks like “Ze” is all the people needed to see to get their votes: Candidates backed by the Servant of the People and Holos scored victories in two single-member districts of Lviv Oblast each, according to preliminary voting results. Candidates who either previously represented or currently represent ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s party won in five single-member districts in the oblast.
10:47 a.m. — The Servant of the People scored a victory in all single-member districts in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, except for one, according to preliminary voting results. Dmytro Shpenov, a former member of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, won with 36.8 percent in District 37 in Kryvy Rih, Zelensky’s hometown.
10:47 a.m. — The Servant of the People won in all single-member districts in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, except for two, according to preliminary voting results. Serhiy Minko, the mayor of the city of Melitopol who was previously backed by ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s party, won in District 80 with 33.25 percent, and Oleksandr Ponomaryov from the pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life won in District 78 with 35.8 percent.
10:42 a.m. — With control of parliament, President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to nominate his favored choice for prosecutor general. In a meeting with Chinese business representatives on July 19, he expressed eagerness to transform the judicial system to protect — instead of harass — investors as well as prosecute lawbreakers and corruptions. His choice for prosecutor general to replace the current incumbent, Yuriy Lutsenko, is not yet clear.
10 a.m. — President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party is doing even better in the single-mandate districts than it did in the party-list voting. The party is expected to get 246 seats, including 122 seats according to party-list representation and 124 seats in single-member districts, according to preliminary voting results. It is a resounding win, giving a single party control of parliament for the first time in Ukraine’s history. The projected seats for the other parties, according to Ukrainska Pravda: 43 for pro-Kremlin Opposition Platform — For Life, 27 for ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity, 25 for ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party, 20 for rock star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Voice (Holos) party, and 59 others who are either independent or claim affiliation to another party.
One half of the Rada is elected in a general vote, through proportional party lists, and the other half is elected in single-member districts. To get a majority in the Rada, Zelensky’s party needs to win 226 seats.
9:36 a.m. — President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party won in all single-member districts in Kharkiv Oblast except for two, according to preliminary voting results. All candidates backed by Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes lost.
9:28 a.m. — President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party won in all single-member districts in Odesa Oblast except for one, according to preliminary voting results. The only exception is District 143 in the west of the oblast, where Anatoly Urbansky, a member of Odesa Oblast’s legislature from ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s party, won with 56 percent. All candidates backed by Odesa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov lost.
9:23 a.m. — President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party won in all single-member districts in Kyiv, according to preliminary voting results.
9:06 a.m. — Voters elect even more Servants of the People: President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party may get a single-party majority in the Verkhovna Rada. The party is expected to get 231 seats, including 122 seats according to party-list representation and 109 seats in single-member districts, according to preliminary voting results.
One half of the Rada is elected in a general vote, through proportional party lists, and the other half is elected in single-member districts. To get a majority in the Rada, Zelensky’s party needs to win 226 seats.
9:01 a.m. — President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party won in all regions, except for three, according to preliminary voting results. The pro-Russian Opposition Platform-For Life won in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and rock star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Golos (Voice) party scored a victory in Lviv Oblast.
8:05 a.m. — Vote count results, with 35.5 percent of voting reports counted.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People — 42.19 percent
Opposition Platform – For Life — 12.75 percent
Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity — 8.71 percent
Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna — 8.15 percent
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Golos — 6.39 percent
