![]() ![]() Mamai ran with the For the Future party, which is close to oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskiy.įor the Future also won in Cherkasy, where incumbent Anatoliy Bondarenko fended off a challenge from Holos to be re-elected with 51% of the vote. In Poltava, Oleksandr Mamai made a political comeback to return to the mayor’s office after being ousted by the city council two years ago. In the runoff, the race was ultimately won by newcomer Roman Klichuk of the United Alternative Party, who scored 60%. ![]() His 2015 opponent, Vitaliy Mykhailyshyn, edged him by 3% to make the second round. ![]() ![]() However, Proposition Party came up short in Chernivtsi, where 2015 winner Oleksiy Kaspruk carried the party mantle but finished third in round one. In Mykolaiv, another Proposition Party candidate, the city’s incumbent mayor Oleksandr Senkevych, won 60% in his re-election bid and increased his winning percentage by five points. Meanwhile, in Dnipro, incumbent Borys Filatov with Proposition Party won a crushing runoff victory with 81% of the vote to secure a second term. Sadoviy now begins an unprecedented fourth term as mayor of the western Ukrainian city. In Lviv, incumbent mayor Andriy Sadoviy won his second round runoff comfortably over European Solidarity’s Oleg Synutka with 62% of the vote. It is now clear that the most striking feature of this local election cycle was the success of incumbent mayors and their locally-based parties. Early December saw most of Ukraine’s remaining local election runoff votes take place, giving us a more or less complete picture of the situation across the country. ![]()
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