Kirovohrad Oblast Council

The Kirovohrad Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Кіровоградська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Kirovohrad Oblast (province) located in central Ukraine.

Kirovohrad Oblast Council
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	1
Leadership
Speaker	Serhii Shulga
Structure
Seats	64
Political groups	15 Fatherland 14 Servant of the People 11 Opposition Platform — For Life 9 European Solidarity 5 For the Future 5 Proposition 5 Radical Party
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020[1]
Meeting place
Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast
Website
https://oblrada.kr.ua/

Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.^[2]

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

• 15 Fatherland
• 14 Servant of the People
• 11 Opposition Platform — For Life
• 9 European Solidarity
• 5 For the Future
• 5 Proposition
• 5 Radical Party

Election date was 25 October 2020^[3]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

• 14 Solidarity
• 14 Fatherland
• 13 Opposition Bloc
• 6 Radical Party
• 5 UKROP
• 4 Self Reliance
• 4 Svoboda
• 4 Our Land

Election date was 25 October 2015^[4]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

• Vitaly Ishchenko (1939–1941, 1943–1949)
• Vasily Komyakhov (1949–1953)
• Grigory Turbay (1953–1963)
• Leonid Kravchenko (1963–1964, industrial)
• Grigory Turbay (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Nikolai Kirichenko (1964–1965)
• Pyotr Koshevsky (1965–1973)
• Dmitry Maksimenko (1973–1980)
• Volodymyr Zheliba (1980–1990)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1990–1991)

Regional council

• Volodymyr Zheliba (1991–1992)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1992)
• Volodymyr Dolynyak (1992–1994)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (1994–1999)
• Vasyl Sibirtsev (1999–2006)
• Mykola Sukhomlyn (2006–2010)
• Mykola Kovalchuk (2010–2014)
• Oleksandr Chornoivanenko (2014–2020)
• Serhiy Shulga (since 2020)