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Polohy (single mandate constituency)

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Polling divisions
  
176

Created
  
For the 1998 election

Election
  
2014

Seat
  
1

Population
  
158,044 (2014)

Seats
  
1 MP

Province
  
Zaporizhia Oblast

Polohy (single-mandate constituency)

MP elected
  
Vadym Kryvokhatko (Poroshenko Bloc), 36%

Major settlements
  
Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk

The No.82 single-mandate constituency (Ukrainian: Одномандатний виборчий округ №82, Odnomandatnyi vyborchyi okruh №82), shortened to OVO No.82 (Ukrainian: ОВО №82) is one of 225 electoral districts that elects a member of parliament (people's deputy) to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament.

Ukraine's electoral system is based on the mixed-member proportional representation system, which stipulates that half of a countries MPs are elected from proportional party lists, with the other half elected from first-past-the-post constituencies. A constituency's votes for a political bloc or party is tallied up with the rest of the 224 constituencies to determine the results of the proportional representation voting.

Location

The No.82 single-mandate constituency is located in the northern portion of Zaporizhia Oblast (province) in Ukraine, representing the Huliaipole Raion, Novomykolaivka Raion, part of Orikhiv Raion, Polohy Raion, Vilniansk Raion, Zaporizhia Raions (districts), including the cities of Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk.

References

Polohy (single-mandate constituency) Wikipedia