Central Election Commission (Ukraine)
| Центральна виборча комісія України (TsVK) / (ЦВК) Tsentrvyborchkom |
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Emblem of the Commission
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| Formed | November 1997 |
| Jurisdiction | Ukraine |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
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| Website | www.cvk.gov.ua |
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The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (Tse-Ve-Ka); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine) is a permanent and independent collegiate body of the Ukrainian government.
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Mission and Authority
The Commission is vested with authority to supervise and conduct presidential, parliamentary, and local self-government elections in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian and local referendums. It issues mandatory decrees, which may be appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine or the High Administrative Court of Ukraine. The Commission is directly financed from the state budget of Ukraine.
The Commission doesn’t have any legal power to perform checks, investigate finance issues or punish violations.[2]
The overall trust in the Central Election Commission of Ukraine in Ukraine is very low.[3]
Composition and Appointment
The Commission consists of 15 members. Each member is appointed for a 7-year term by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine. Nominees are submitted by the President of Ukraine upon consultations with parliamentary factions and groups. Appointed members take an oath of office at the plenary session meeting of the parliament. All members of the commission have a higher education in law. The chairman of the commission is elected by the members of the commission through a secret voting.
The Commission elects out of its ranks the head of the Commission, deputy heads, and the secretary of the Commission.
State registry of voters
Secretariat of the Commission
- Chairman
- Deputy
- Operation-Methodical Department
- Legal Department
- Informational Department
- Department of Document Support
- Managing and Material-Technical Support Department
- Division in relationships with public media
- Division of human resources and the state service
- Division of planning and financing
- Division of control and use of funds
- Accounting division
- Division of international cooperation
- Editorial-publishing division
- Supporting service of the Central Election Commission
Appointment
History
The first election commission in Ukraine was created in 1917 as a Electoral Bureau of the General Secretary of Internal Affairs and was headed by Mykhailo Kovenko. It prepared elections to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly, which were interrupted by the Ukrainian-Soviet War. In 1989 the modern election commission was created under the Cabinet of Ukraine, which in 1997 became an independent body of the Ukrainian government.
Districts
There are different electoral divisions depending on the level of elections. Before the electoral of 1997 and the installation of the Central Election Commission the country consisted of 450 electoral districts (number of parliamentarians in Verkhovna Rada). With the introduction of party voting principle the number of districts changed to 225. Each electoral district includes around 120-180 smaller electoral precincts (dilnytsi).
Beside the national level elections the country conducts local elections as well. Each region (oblast or Autonomous Republic Crimea), district (raion), urban or rural settlement (see Administrative divisions of Ukraine) has its own council (rada) amounting altogether to some 12,088 councils of various size across the nation.[4]
Western Ukraine
| Election year |
Zakarpattia | Chernivtsi | Ivano-Frankivsk | Lviv | Ternopil | Volyn | Rivne | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | ||||||||
| total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | ||||||||
| 1990 | 167-177 | 11 |  0 |
430-437 | 8 | 0 |
196-207 | 12 | 0 |
258-281 | 24 | 0 |
355-364 | 10 | 0 |
40-48 | 9 | 0 |
332-341 | 10 | 0 |
| 1994 | 167-176 | 10 |  1 |
431-438 | 8 | 0 |
195-206 | 12 | 0 |
260-282 | 23 | 1 |
356-365 | 10 | 0 |
64-72 | 9 | 0 |
333-342 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 70-74 | 5 | 5 |
202-205 | 4 | 4 |
84-89 | 6 | 6 |
115-126 | 12 | 11 |
163-167 | 5 | 5 |
19-23 | 5 | 4 |
152-156 | 5 | 5 |
| 1999 | 70-74 | 5 | 0 |
202-205 | 4 | 0 |
84-89 | 6 | 0 |
115-126 | 12 | 0 |
163-167 | 5 | 0 |
19-23 | 5 | 0 |
152-156 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 70-75 | 6 |  1 |
202-205 | 4 | 0 |
85-90 | 6 | 0 |
116-127 | 12 | 0 |
164-168 | 5 | 0 |
19-23 | 5 | 0 |
153-157 | 5 | 0 |
| 2004 | 70-75 | 6 | 0 |
204-207 | 4 | 0 |
85-90 | 6 | 0 |
117-128 | 12 | 0 |
166-170 | 5 | 0 |
19-23 | 5 | 0 |
155-159 | 5 | 0 |
| 2006 | 66-70 | 5 | 1 |
207-210 | 4 | 0 |
79-85 | 7 | 1 |
112-125 | 14 | 2 |
165-172 | 8 | 3 |
20-26 | 7 | 2 |
151-157 | 7 | 2 |
| 2007 | 66-70 | 5 | 0 |
207-210 | 4 | 0 |
79-85 | 7 | 0 |
112-125 | 14 | 0 |
165-172 | 8 | 0 |
20-26 | 5 | 0 |
151-157 | 7 | 0 |
| 2010 | 69-74 | 6 | 1 |
204-207 | 4 | 0 |
84-90 | 7 | 0 |
117-128 | 12 | 2 |
165-169 | 5 | 3 |
19-23 | 5 | 2 |
154-158 | 5 | 2 |
| 2012 | 68-73 | 5 | 0 |
201-204 | 4 | 0 |
83-89 | 7 | 0 |
115-126 | 12 | 0 |
163-167 | 5 | 0 |
19-23 | 5 | 0 |
152-156 | 5 | 0 |
Presidential elections
Northern Ukraine
| Election year |
Zhytomyr | Kiev | Kiev city | Chernihiv | Sumy | ||||||||||
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| districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | districts | number | ||||||
| total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | total | change | ||||||
| 1990 | 153-166 | 14 | 0 |
208-224 | 17 | 0 |
1-22 | 22 | 0 |
438-450 | 13 | 0 |
342-354 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 154-166 | 13 | 1 |
207-223 | 17 | 0 |
1-23 | 23 | 1 |
439-450 | 12 | 1 |
343-355 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 64-69 | 6 | 7 |
90-97 | 8 | 9 |
212-223 | 12 | 11 |
206-211 | 6 | 6 |
157-162 | 6 | 7 |
| 1999 | 64-69 | 6 | 0 |
90-97 | 8 | 0 |
212-223 | 12 | 0 |
206-211 | 6 | 0 |
157-162 | 6 | 0 |
| 2002 | 64-69 | 6 | 0 |
91-98 | 8 | 0 |
212-223 | 12 | 0 |
206-211 | 6 | 0 |
158-163 | 6 | 0 |
| 2004 | 64-69 | 6 | 0 |
91-99 | 9 | 1 |
214-223 | 10 | 2 |
208-213 | 6 | 0 |
160-165 | 6 | 0 |
| 2006 | 56-65 | 10 | 4 |
86-94 | 9 | 0 |
218-224 | 7 | 3 |
211-217 | 7 | 1 |
158-164 | 7 | 1 |
| 2007 | 56-65 | 10 | 0 |
86-94 | 9 | 0 |
218-224 | 7 | 0 |
211-217 | 7 | 0 |
158-164 | 7 | 0 |
| 2010 | 63-68 | 6 | 4 |
91-99 | 9 | 0 |
214-223 | 10 | 3 |
208-213 | 6 | 1 |
159-164 | 6 | 1 |
| 2012 | 62-67 | 6 | 0 |
90-98 | 9 | 0 |
211-223 | 13 | 3 |
205-210 | 6 | 0 |
157-162 | 6 | 0 |
Presidential elections
Members
- Mykhaylo Okhendovsky (Охендовський Михайло Володимирович) (chairman)[1]
- Andriy Mahera (Магера Андрій Йосипович) (deputy chairman)
- Zhanna Usenko-Chorna (Усенко-Чорна Жанна Іванівна) (deputy chairwoman)
- Tetiana Lukash (Лукаш Тетяна Леонідівна) (secretary)
- Tamara Astakhova (Астахова Тамара Валеріївна)
- Yuriy Danylevskyi (Данилевський Юрій Миколайович)
- Yuriy Donchenko (Донченко Юрій Григорович)
- Ihor Zhydenko (Жиденко Ігор Григорович)
- Bronislav Raykovskyy (Райковський Броніслав Станіславович)
- Oleksandr Chupakhin (Чупахін Олександр Михайлович)
- Yulia Shvets (Швець Юлія Вікторівна)
- Oleksandr Shelestov (Шелестов Олександр Миколайович)
- Valeriy Sheludko (Шелудько Валерій Євгенович)
- 1 vacant seat[5]
Former members
Former members of the Commission were appointed by the parliament on December 8, 2004. This appointment was an integral part of the legislative package to resolve the presidential election crisis in Ukraine. These members supervised the repeat of the second round of the presidential elections on December 26, 2004.
Members of the Commission as of January 1, 2005 were:
- Yaroslav Davydovych (Давидович Ярослав Васильович) (chairman)
- Maryna Stavniychuk (Ставнійчук Марина Іванівна) (deputy chairwoman)
- Mykola Melnyk (Мельник Микола Іванович) (deputy chairman)
- Serhiy Dubovyk (Дубовик Сергій Олегович) (secretary)
- Yuriy Donchenko (Донченко Юрій Григорович)
- Valentyna Zavalevska (Завалевська Валентина Олександрівна)
- Ihor Kachur (Качур Ігор Анатолійович)
- Ruslan Knyazevych (Князевич Руслан Петрович)
- Andriy Mahera (Магера Андрій Йосипович)
- Mykhaylo Okhendrovskyy (Охендовський Михайло Володимирович)
- Anatoliy Pysarenko (Писаренко Анатолій Аркадійович)
- Bronislav Raykovskyy (Райковський Броніслав Станіславович)
- Zhanna Usenko-Chorna (Усенко-Чорна Жанна Іванівна)
- Oleksandr Chupakhin (Чупахін Олександр Михайлович)
- Valeriy Sheludko (Шелудько Валерій Євгенович)
Previous Members
- Valeriy Bondyk (Бондик Валерій Анатолійович) (February 17, 2004 - December 8, 2004)
- Yuriy Danylevskyy (Данилевський Юрій Миколайович) (April 7, 1999 - December 8, 2004)
- Serhiy Kivalov (Ківалов Сергій Васильович) (February 17 - December 8, 2004); currently a member of the Parliament of Ukraine[6]
- Mykola Rybachuk (Рибачук Микола Филимонович) (April 7, 1999 - December 8, 2004)
See also
Presidential elections
- Ukrainian presidential election, 2014
- Ukrainian presidential election, 2010
- Ukrainian presidential election, 2004
- Ukrainian presidential election, 1999
- Ukrainian presidential election, 1994
- Ukrainian presidential election, 1991
Parliamentary elections
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2012
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mykhailo Okhendovsky appointed head of Central Election Commission, Interfax-Ukraine (6 July 2013)
- ↑ Campaigns file dodgy spending declarations, Kyiv Post (8 December 2012)
- ↑ Poll: Citizens have low level of confidence in CEC and Supreme Administrative Court, Kyiv Post (December 28, 2009)
- ↑ 2010 local elections
- ↑ Ukraine's parliament refuses to appoint Karpuntsov member of Central Election Commission, Kyiv Post (January 21, 2010)
- ↑ Nation’s law enforcers have dismal track record, Kyiv Post (December 11, 2009)
- The Law of Ukraine "On the Central Election Commission", No. 1932-IV (1932-15), dated June 30, 2004, promulgated July 9, 2004 (text in Ukrainian).
- The Decree of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "On Appointing the Members of the Central Election Commission", No. 2225-IV (2225-15), dated December 8, 2004, promulgated December 8, 2004 (text in Ukrainian)
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