2020 Ukrainian local elections


The 2020 Ukrainian local elections will take place on Sunday 25 October 2020. In the election deputies of district councils and rural townships will be elected and elections for city mayors will be held.
Due to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and loss of government control of parts of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast no elections will not be held in certain parts of these two provinces and no elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be held.

Electoral system

For the first time in Ukrainian local elections all candidates have to pay a cash deposit to be able to take part in the election. The size of this deposit depends on the size of the population of the place where the election is held. The lowest deposit will be for candidates for mayors of Uzhhorod, Nikopol and Melitopol ; while the highest will be for the mayoral candidates of Kiev, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.
Only in places with a population of less than 10,000 voters a candidate can be self-nominated, in all other cases a candidate most be nominated by a political party.
The elections are with a 5% election threshold. The voters will have to fill in two types of candidate lists - one for the whole city and a separate for their electoral district. The number 1 on the party list of the whole city is guaranteed a place in the local council. The election is held with a specific open list system. In order to benefit of this open list system a candidate in an electoral district needs to gain 25% of the total number of votes received by all parties that overcame the electoral threshold divided by the number of seats in the local council minus the seats won by the number 1's on the party list of the whole city.
On all candidate lists among every five candidates two candidates have to be female.

Non-voting areas

Due to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea no elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea will be held. Loss of government control of parts of the Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast also means elections will not be held in certain parts of these provinces. There will also be no elections for the Donetsk Oblast Council and Luhansk Oblast Council, they're functions are currently being performed by civil–military administrations.