Second round of local elections: they will vote for mayors again

In many cities from mid-November to local mayor election results The Ukrainians will go to the polls again to choose the final winner in the race for “mayoralty.” Under the law, if neither mayoral candidate got 50 percent or more during the vote, the top two candidates continue to fight in the second round.

Read more about the cities in which the second round will take place in the RBC-Ukraine material.

Second round of local elections

A few days before the elections, a draft resolution appeared in parliament to postpone the vote until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was registered by one of the people’s deputies of the “Servant of the People” Tatyana Grishchenko. But the presidential faction denied this initiative, assuring that they were not going to pause the electoral process. Rada Chairman Dmitry Razumkov said that this document has already been withdrawn.

Kiev

The exit polls show that for the post of mayor of Kiev, the fight will continue in the second round… According to a study by Savik Shuster and Ukraine 24 study, Vitali Klitschko is 4% short before the final victory. According to the exit poll by the Rating group, which also measured the vote in the capital, it lacks 3%.

Klitschko obtained 45.93% (according to Shuster and Ukraine24) and 47.8% (according to the “Rating”). He will compete with the candidate of the Opposition Platform – For Life, the former head of the State Administration of the City of Kiev, Alexander Popov, who received 9.62%. (according to Shuster and Ukraine 24) and 8.6% (according to the “Rating”).

According to the exit poll from the Savik Shuster and Ukraine study 24, the second round of voting will also take place in most regional centers.

Lviv

The second round is likely to take place in Lviv. According to the results of the exit poll on Sunday, the current mayor of the city ranked first Andrey Sadovoy with 41.12% of the votes. His rival in the second round will be the former head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, the popular deputy of “European Solidarity” Oleg sinyutka, which obtained the second result: 27.38%.

Odessa

Once again, the mayor is most likely to be elected in Odessa. From the exit poll it appears that the current mayor received the highest result and first place in the October 25 vote. Gennady Trukhanov – 34.4% of the votes. The candidate of the “Opposition Platform – For Life”, Popular Deputy Nikolay Skorik, which gained 17.93%.

Dnieper

Presumably the elections will be held in Dnipro in two rounds. Mayor of this city Boris Filatov, nominated by the Proposition party, ranked first with 44.5%. The second result – 14.4% – went to party leader Hromadska Sila Zagida Krasnew.

Cherkasy

In Cherkassy, ​​according to the exit poll, the current mayor of the city will converge in the second round Anatoly bondarenko of the party “For the future” (32.66%) and the candidate of “Voces” Victor evpak (19.84%).

Nikolaev

In Nikolaev, the current mayor of the city is entering the second round, in the exit poll Alexander Senkevich of the Proposition parties with 40.78% and one OPZZH candidate Vladislav Chaika c 26.77%.

Uzhhorod

According to the exit poll, the current mayor of the city is a self-nominated candidate for the second round in Uzhgorod. Bogdan andreev (23.84%) and candidate of the “Servants of the People” Victor shchadey (22.73%).

Chernivtsi

In Chernivtsi, according to the exit poll, the candidate of the “Edina Alternativa” party will continue to fight in the second round. Roman klichuk (29.13%) and Vitaly Mikhailishin of the party “Mikhailishin team” (21.43%).

Krivoy rog

In Kryvyi Rih in the second round, according to the exit poll, the mayor of the city will be Yuri Vilkul (“Vilkula Block” Ukrainian Perspective “) with 42.8% of the votes and a candidate from the” Servant of the People ” Dmitry Shevchik with 31.01% of the votes.

How it was in the 2015 elections

In the last local elections in 2015 in the capital the mayor was also elected in two rounds. Then, the current mayor Vitali Klitschko defeated the former popular deputy Borislav Bereza with a score of 64.1% against 32.3%.

In Lviv Andrei Sadovy was less than one percent short of an immediate win in the first round. In the second round, he ran for mayor with Ruslan Koshulinsky and won with a result of 61.1% against 36.8%.

I had to fight for the “mayor” in Dnipro a seat in the second round and Boris Filatov. In 2015, in the second round, he competed with the former popular MP Oleksandr Vilkul, winning by 52.3% against almost 45%.

But in Kharkov and Odessa the current mayors were immediately victorious in the first round. Gennady Kernes won 65.8% of the vote, his closest rival – Samopomich’s Taras Sitenko 12.3%. Odessa residents gave 51.93% for Gennady Trukhanov in the first round. His main rival, Aleksandr Borovik, received 24.6% from the then ruling BPP-Solidarity party.