Kharkiv Oblast Council

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]

Kharkiv Oblast Council Харківська обласна рада
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	1
Leadership
Speaker	Tetyana Yehorova-Lutsenko [uk] (Servant of the People)
Structure
Seats	120
Political groups	Government (63)   Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv (46)   Servant of the People (17) Supported by (29)   Restoration of Ukraine (29)[1][2] Opposition (28)   Bloc Svitlychna Together! (17)   European Solidarity (11)
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020[3]
Meeting place
64 Sumska street, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Website
http://www.oblrada.kharkov.ua/ukr/

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

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

• 46 Bloc Kernes — Successful Kharkiv!
• 29 Opposition Platform — For Life
• 17 Servant of the People
• 17 Bloc Svitlychna Together!
• 11 European Solidarity

Election date was 25 October 2020^[7]

2015

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

Regional executive committee

• 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

The building of the Kharkiv Oblast Council opposite Freedom Square

• Oleksandr Maselsky (1991–1992)
• Volodymyr Tyahlo (1992–1994)
• Oleksandr Maselsky (1994–1996)
• Volodymyr Tyahlo (1996–2002)
• Oleksiy Kolesnik (2002–2004)
• Yevhen Kushnaryov (2004–2005)
• Oleh Shapovalov (2005–2006)
• Vasiliy Salygin (2006–2008)
• Serhii Chernov (2008–2020)
• Artur Tovmasyan (2020–2021)
• Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko (since 2021)