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Ukraine

Franchise & Registration

  • Franchise Age: 18
  • Compulsory Vote: Not compulsory
  • Eligibility Exception: legally-declared insanity
  • Registration Type: Automatic registration
  • Registration Basis: Residence requirement

Election Management & Enforcement

  • Nameof EMB: Central Election Commission
  • Independent EMB: Yes
  • EMBNominations: 15 members selected by the President, based on the suggestions from legislature
  • EMBTenure: 7 years
  • Who Runs Election: Election Management Body
  • Nameof Elect Enforcement Body: Supreme Administrative Court

Candidacy & Campaign Rules

  • Debate Average: 1
  • Debate Format: 2004: debate between Yanukovych and Yushchenko.
  • Debate Mandatory Number: Not mandatory
  • Debate Mandatory Number: Not mandatory
  • Opinion Polls Embargo: Embargo for longer

Electoral System & Organisation

  • Elect System Main Election: Mixed
  • Main Election Type: Presidential
  • Main Election Cycle: 5
  • Numb Round Main Election: Two
  • Referenda_Law: Constitution, (last amended in 2016) art. 72, 73, 156
  • Referenda_Binding: Always Binding
  • Voting Machine: None
  • National Holiday Elect Day: Never
  • Dayof Election: Sunday
  • Districting Source: EMB
  • Districting Flexibility: The Parliament is composed of 450 deputies, half of which are elected from a single countrywide constituency. For the election of the other 225 deputies, the territory of Ukraine shall be divided into 225 single-member constituencies which shall be established by the Central Election Commission. The constituency boundaries are determined in accordance with the existing administrative boundaries, the number of registered voters in each constituency and the interests of local communities and ethnic minorities living in the respective territory.
  • Frequency Districting Change: 5

Polling Station

  • Average Voterby Polling Station: 1148
  • Normal Opening Time Poll Station: 08:00
  • Normal Closing Time Poll Station: 2000
  • Polling Station Numbers: 32830
  • Listof Polling Station Buildings: public building
  • Accessibility Requirement: Party to UNCRPD
  • Ballot Box Transparency: Transparent
  • Box Feeding System: Voter
  • Vote Receipt: No receipt
  • Count Locallyor Centrally: locally
  • Manualor Automatic Count: manual
  • Nature Counting Personnel: election commission

Ballot Paper

  • Ballot Type: Paper
  • Singleor Multi Paper Ballot: Single
  • Max Numberof Votesper Ballot: 1
  • Ballot Paper Type Description: Single Ballot Paper
  • Ballot Paper Type Photo Upload: YES
  • Ballot Paper Size: 2019 Ukrainian presidential election's monster ballot paper. 80cm long 2019.
  • Orderof Candidatesor Parties: alphabetical

Remote Voting

  • Temporal Remote Voting: No
  • Geographical Remote Voting: No
  • Personal Remote Voting: No
  • Remote Voting List: e.) A voter who can not come to the premises for voting due to health reasons shall submit a request to the election commission. According to this request the election commission sends a commission of 3 people to the voter.
  • Mobile Polling Stations: No

Special Needs

  • Provision First Time Voters: Throughout March – April 2019, 128 first-time voters from Kyiv, Severodonetsk, Starobilsk, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv regions took part in joint Council of Europe and Democracy Reporting International workshops “Your first vote” aimed at engaging youth in political and electoral processes in Ukraine.
  • Provision Illiterate Voters: Voting Assistance
  • Provision Linguistic Ethnic Minorites: information available in other languages
  • Provision Blind Voters: Accessible Elections Posters. Law of Ukraine on the Election of the People's Deputies of Ukraine (2011). Article 40 states: (2) Voters who have been noted on the voter list as being permanently unable to move without assistance shall be simultaneously notified that they shall be provided with an opportunity to vote at their place of stay. Such notices shall be sent or delivered no later than fifteen days prior to the day of voting. The form of a personal invitation shall be approved by the Central Election Commission. Article 85 states: (5) A voter shall fill out the ballot papers personally, in a booth for secret voting. The presence of other persons in the booth for secret voting during the filling out the ballot papers by the voter shall be prohibited. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to fill out the ballot paper without assistance, may, with consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another voter for assistance, with the exception of a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, his or her proxy, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer. (6) To ensure the possibility of voting for blind voters, the Central Election Commission shall produce two ballot paper stencils for each regular election precinct with raised dots (according to the Braille method). For the special election precincts, such stencils shall be allowed to be produced upon a submission from the district election commission… (9) Voters shall personally drop their completed ballot papers into the ballot box. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to drop the ballot paper into the ballot box without assistance may, with the consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another person to do that in his or her presence, except that he or she may not ask for assistance from a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, a proxy of an MP candidate, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer…
  • Provision Deaf Voters: Law of Ukraine on the Election of the People's Deputies of Ukraine (2011). Article 40 states: (2) Voters who have been noted on the voter list as being permanently unable to move without assistance shall be simultaneously notified that they shall be provided with an opportunity to vote at their place of stay. Such notices shall be sent or delivered no later than fifteen days prior to the day of voting. The form of a personal invitation shall be approved by the Central Election Commission. Article 85 states: (5) A voter shall fill out the ballot papers personally, in a booth for secret voting. The presence of other persons in the booth for secret voting during the filling out the ballot papers by the voter shall be prohibited. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to fill out the ballot paper without assistance, may, with consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another voter for assistance, with the exception of a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, his or her proxy, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer. (6) To ensure the possibility of voting for blind voters, the Central Election Commission shall produce two ballot paper stencils for each regular election precinct with raised dots (according to the Braille method). For the special election precincts, such stencils shall be allowed to be produced upon a submission from the district election commission… (9) Voters shall personally drop their completed ballot papers into the ballot box. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to drop the ballot paper into the ballot box without assistance may, with the consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another person to do that in his or her presence, except that he or she may not ask for assistance from a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, a proxy of an MP candidate, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer…
  • Provision Motor Handicap Voters: Law of Ukraine on the Election of the People's Deputies of Ukraine (2011). Article 40 states: (2) Voters who have been noted on the voter list as being permanently unable to move without assistance shall be simultaneously notified that they shall be provided with an opportunity to vote at their place of stay. Such notices shall be sent or delivered no later than fifteen days prior to the day of voting. The form of a personal invitation shall be approved by the Central Election Commission. Article 85 states: (5) A voter shall fill out the ballot papers personally, in a booth for secret voting. The presence of other persons in the booth for secret voting during the filling out the ballot papers by the voter shall be prohibited. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to fill out the ballot paper without assistance, may, with consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another voter for assistance, with the exception of a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, his or her proxy, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer. (6) To ensure the possibility of voting for blind voters, the Central Election Commission shall produce two ballot paper stencils for each regular election precinct with raised dots (according to the Braille method). For the special election precincts, such stencils shall be allowed to be produced upon a submission from the district election commission… (9) Voters shall personally drop their completed ballot papers into the ballot box. A voter who, due to his or her corporal defects, is unable to drop the ballot paper into the ballot box without assistance may, with the consent of the head or other member of the precinct election commission, ask another person to do that in his or her presence, except that he or she may not ask for assistance from a member of the election commission, an MP candidate, a proxy of an MP candidate, a party’s authorized person, or an official observer…

Targeted Initiatives

Inclusivity Provisions