2010 Crimean parliamentary election

none Crimea 2006 2014 31 October 2010 All 100 seats in the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea 51 yes Party of Regions 50.44 80 44 Communist Party of Ukraine 7.65 5 9 Qurultai-Rukh People's Movement of Ukraine 7.24 5 8 Soyuz (political party) 5.44 5 10 Russian Unity 4.15 3 new Strong Ukraine 3.75 2 new Chairman of the Council Anatoliy Hrytsenko Party of Regions Vladimir Konstantinov Party of Regions The 2010 Crimean parliamentary election was held on 31 October 2010 as a part of the general 2010 Ukrainian local elections. Unlike the previous election to the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, they were conducted on the mixed-member proportional representation system. In order to gain representation in the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a party or bloc had to garner at least 3 percent of the total vote. The Party of Regions won the elections with an overwhelming majority.Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power https://web.archive.org/web/20110813031529/http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2010-11-04/local-government-elections-ukraine-last-stage-party-regions-takeover- August 13, 2011 , Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010) This was the last parliamentary election in Crimea before it was annexed by Russia. Background Prior to 2009 amendments to the Crimean Constitution, the parliament's term was limited to four years. It has since been increased to five after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed the amendments into law in April 2009.Yushchenko signed a law increasing the legislative term of the Crimean parliament http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/796500 Korrespondent.net April 5, 2009 2009-04-06 Ukrainian New elections where set for October 31, 2010 by the Supreme Council on August 4, 2010. In June 2010 the parliament had failed to fix the election date on October 31. The resolution was voted against by a number of coalition factions, including the ruling For Yanukovych! electoral bloc (that included the Party of Regions). Early July 2010, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) supported by the Party of Regions’ initiative, announced local elections on the last day of October 2010.Ukraine’s Crimea to hold parliamentary elections on October 31, ITAR-TASS (August 4, 2010) Results File:Crimea Verkhovna Rada 2010.svg Party-list Constituency Total Party of Regions 357030 32 48 80 Communist Party of Ukraine 54172 5 0 5 Qurultai-Rukh 51253 5 0 5 Soyuz 38514 3 2 5 Russian Unity 29343 3 0 3 Strong Ukraine 26515 2 0 2 Batkivshchyna 19589 0 0 0 Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine 12614 0 0 0 Party of Pensioners of Ukraine 11133 0 0 0 Front for Change 8281 0 0 0 Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party 7268 0 0 0 People's Party 4563 0 0 0 Socialist Party of Ukraine 2909 0 0 0 Party of Greens of Ukraine 2493 0 0 0 All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War" 2030 0 0 0 Justice Party 1822 0 0 0 Greens 1699 0 0 0 Peasant Party of Ukraine 1396 0 0 0 Serhii Sukhanov's Party uk Партія Сергія Суханова Motherland 1395 0 0 0 Svoboda 1361 0 0 0 New Politics 1291 0 0 0 United Centre 1278 0 0 0 Ukrainian Social Democratic Party 1240 0 0 0 Union of Left Forces 1177 0 0 0 Ukrainian People's Party 1114 0 0 0 Agrarian Party of Ukraine 980 0 0 0 People's Power Party 934 0 0 0 New Generation Party 904 0 0 0 Socialist Ukraine 878 0 0 0 Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) 803 0 0 0 People's Labor Union of Ukraine 745 0 0 0 Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" 743 0 0 0 Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists 702 0 0 0 Democratic Party of Ukraine 625 0 0 0 Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine 624 0 0 0 Hromada 452 0 0 0 European Party of Ukraine 432 0 0 0 Against all 57552 21794 50 50 100 1522000 Government of Crimea References External links https://archive.today/20121228184348/http://www.izbircom.crimea-portal.gov.ua/rus/index.php?v=5&tek=83&par=73 Election commission of Crimea el Category:Elections in Crimea Crimea Crimea