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Ternopil Oblast Council

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Type
  
Unicameral

Speaker
  
Viktor Ovcharuk

Last election
  
25 October 2015

Houses
  
1

Seats
  
64

Ternopil Oblast Council

Political groups
  
18 Solidarity 13 Svoboda 10 Fatherland 6 Self Reliance 5 Radical Party 5 People's Control 4 Civil Position 3 UKROP

The Ternopil Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Тернопільська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Ternopil Oblast (province) located in western Ukraine. The council is composed of 120 members and is situated in the oblast's administrative center Ternopil.

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Council members are elected for five year terms. The latest elections were contested on March 15, 2009. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 3 percent of the total vote. In the latest election, seven parties passed the threshold.

2009 Composition

The 2009 election of the current composition was the electoral breakthrough of All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda". Their win of 34.69% of the votes and 50 seats was the best result for a far-right party in Ukraine’s history.

Former parties

  • Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (Блок Юлії Тимошенко) bloc surrendered all its mandates following the 2009 elections
  • All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"
  • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party
  • Socialist Party of Ukraine (Соціалістична партія України) lost all 5 mandates in 2009
  • Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Український Народний Блок Костенка і Плюща) bloc fell apart in 2009 continuing as Ukrainian People's Party
  • Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
  • Political Party Cathedral Ukraine
  • Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Блок Наша Україна - Народна Самооборона) bloc fell apart in 2009 continuing as People's Union Our Ukraine
  • Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
  • People's Movement of Ukraine
  • Christian Democratic Union (Ukraine)
  • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly
  • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
  • Special events

    During the night of 29 to 30 August 2003 the leader of the Our Ukraine's faction in the Ternopil Oblast Council, Ivan Havdyda, was assassinated in Kiev.

    References

    Ternopil Oblast Council Wikipedia