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On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine.〔(Local elections on Oct 25 to be held in 73 unified communities – CEC ), Interfax-Ukraine (28 August 2015)〕 The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of mayors in cities with more than 90,000 residents where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes were held on 15 November 2015.〔〔(Local election runoff in Ukraine's major cities should be held no later than Nov. 15 ), Kyiv Post (Oct. 2, 2015)〕〔 Because of the ongoing conflict between the Ukrainian government and separatists and the February 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, local elections were not conducted throughout all of the administrative subdivisions of Ukraine.〔 The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties,〔 followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party.〔 The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south.〔〔 The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast).〔〔 In the west, Svoboda improved its performance compared with last year's parliamentary election.〔 A total of 132 political parties took part in the elections.〔(Reform Watch - Oct. 1, 2015 ), Kyiv Post (Oct. 2, 2015) (Rhinos, dill and hidden threats confuse voters in Kyiv ), Kyiv Post (Oct. 2, 2015)〕 The political parties contested for the 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional parliaments, more than 10,700 local councils and mayoral seats.〔(Exit Polls Show Ukraine Divided For, Against Poroshenko Rule ), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (27 October 2015) (Ukraine’s prime minister opts out of polls ), Financial Times (24 October 2015) (Electoral lists of candidates in multimember constituencies within the regions of Ukraine in the local elections in 2015 ), Central Election Commission of Ukraine〕 The voter turnout was 46.62% of the population.〔 ()〕 During the second round, the voter turnout dropped to 34.08%.〔 ==Background== Late January 2014 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine made a decision declaring that regardless of under which conditions the previous elections were conducted, regularly scheduled local elections must occur in October 2015. The Central Election Commission of Ukraine asked the government to allocate 1.2 billion hryvnias (approx. 100 million USD) towards financing the election (on 9 July 2014) The campaign for the elections started on 5 September 2015.〔 But since the start of the summer political advertising had began to increase rapidly.〔 (Surprise electorate from advertising balloons to motorcycles ), The Ukrainian Week (9 October 2015)〕 This was marred with a sharp rise of handouts by potential candidates.〔 Local issues were ignorined by parties, who focused on national issues.〔(Ukraine's Local Elections: New law, old problems ) by Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, New Eastern Europe (22 October 2015)〕 According to Depo.ua and the Committee of Voters of Ukraine political parties spend at least $82 million on campaigning.〔(Millions Of Ukrainians To Vote On Oct. 25: Parties to spend $82 million in local vote ), Kyiv Post (23 October 2015)〕 They claim that during the last two months of the campaign political parties rented 75 percent of Ukraine's 20,000 billboards.〔 More than 350,000 candidates (representing 132 political parties〔 or as an independent candidate) were electable for 168,450 positions of mayors of cities, villages and settlements and for deputies of village, settlement, city, city district, district and 1,600 regional council seats in 22 regional councils.〔〔 A candidate did not have to live in a constituency where she/he was electable.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ukrainian local elections, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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