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Kharkiv Oblast Council
Харківська обласна рада
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Houses1
Leadership
Structure
Seats120
Political groups
Government (63)

Supported by (29)

Opposition (28)

Elections
Last election
25 October 2020[3]
Meeting place
Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast
Website
http://www.oblrada.kharkov.ua/ukr/

The Kharkiv Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Харківська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kharkiv Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine. The council is composed of 120 members and is situated in the oblast's administrative center Kharkiv. Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation on the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.[4]

On 1 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the building was bombed in a missile strike.[5] According to the Council, 29 people were killed.[6]

Recent elections[edit]

2020[edit]

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

Election date was 25 October 2020[7]

2015[edit]

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

Distribution of seats from 2015 until 2020
  Revival: 50 seats
  Petro Poroshenko Bloc: 20 seats
  Opposition Bloc: 19 seats
  Self Reliance: 12 seats
  Our Land: 11 seats
  Fatherland: 8 seats

Election date was 25 October 2015[8]

Chairmen[edit]

Regional executive committee[edit]

  • Vasily Kuzmenko (1932–1933)
  • Ilya Shelekhes (1933–1934)
  • Ivan Fedyaev (1934–1935)
  • Grigory Pryadchenko (1935–1937)
  • Nikolay Prokopenko (1937–1938)
  • Grigory Butenko (1938–1940)
  • Pyotr Svinarenko (1940–1942)
  • Artem Vakhnyuk (acting, 1943)
  • Dmitry Zhila (acting, 1943)
  • Ivan Voloshin (1943–1954)
  • Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (1954–1963)
  • Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (agrarian, 1963–1964)
  • Konstantin Trusov (industrial, 1963–1964)
  • Dmitry Pisnyachevsky (1964–1968)
  • Andrey Bezditko (1968–1983)
  • Oleksandr Maselsky (1983–1990)
  • Yuri Titov (1990–1991)

Regional council[edit]

References[edit]


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