Lviv Oblast Council

The Lviv Oblast Council or Lviv Regional Council (Ukrainian: Львівська обласна рада) is the regional council (parliament) of the Lviv Oblast (region) located in western Ukraine.

Lviv Oblast Council Львівська обласна рада
8th convocation
Type
Type	Unicameral
Leadership
Chairman	Yurii Kholod (acting), Servant of the People since 30 June 2023
1st Deputy Chairman	Yevhenii Hirnyk[a], Independent since 4 December 2020
Deputy Chairman	Vacant since 30 June 2023
Structure
Seats	84
Political groups	European Solidarity (27)   Servant of the People (9)   Self Reliance (9)   Holos (political party) (7)   Batkivshchyna (6)   Svoboda (6)   Rukh (6)   For the Future (6)   Ukrainian Galician Party (5)   Independent politician (1)   Vacant (2)
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020
Meeting place
Government House, Lviv, Lviv Oblast
Website
https://lvivoblrada.gov.ua/

Legislative framework

The Regional Council is a local self-government body representing the common interests of territorial communities of villages, towns and cities within the powers defined by the Constitution of Ukraine and Ukrainian Law On Local Self-Government in Ukraine.^[3]

Composition and work procedure

The Lviv Regional Council consists of 84 members who are elected by Lviv Region residents on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage. Council members are elected for a five year term. In order to gain representation in the Council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.^[4]

The Council meets in regular and extraordinary sessions. The session is plenipotentiary if more than a half of its members (at least 43) participate in the meeting.

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

• 28 European Solidarity
• 9 Servant of the People
• 9 Self Reliance
• 7 Fatherland
• 7 Voice
• 6 Svoboda
• 6 Rukh
• 6 Ukrainian Galician Party
• 6 For the Future

Election date was 25 October 2020^[5]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

• 20 Solidarity
• 14 Self Reliance
• 12 Svoboda
• 9 Fatherland
• 8 Civil Position
• 6 UKROP
• 5 Radical Party
• 5 People's Movement "People's Control" [uk]
• 5 Rukh

Election date was 25 October 2015^[6]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

• Nikolai Kozyrev (1939–1940)
• Pyotr Timchenko (1940–1941)
• Nikolai Kozyrev (1944–1949)
• Kuzma Pelekhaty (1949–1952)
• Pyotr Mirgorodsky (1952, acting)
• Pyotr Kozlanyuk (1952–1954)
• Semyon Stefanik (1954–1963)
• Fyodor Koval (1963–1964; industrial)
• Semyon Stefanik (1963–1964; agrarian)
• Semyon Stefanik (1964–1969)
• Timofey Telishevsky (1969–1979)
• Pyotr Shavkov (1979–1980, acting)
• Mikhail Kirei (1980–1990)
• Stepan Davimuka (1990–1991)

Regional council

• Viacheslav Chornovil (1990–1992)
• Mykola Horyn (1992–1997)
• Orest Furdychko (1997–1998)
• Stepan Senchuk (1998–2001)
• Yaroslav Hadzalo (2001–2002)
• Mykhailo Sendak (2002–2006)
• Myroslav Senyk (2006–2010)
• Oleg Pankevych (2010–2012)
• Petro Kolodiy (2012–2015)
• Oleksandr Hanushchyn (2015–2020)
• Iryna Hrymak (2020–2023)
• Yevhenii Hirnyk (acting, 2023)
• Yurii Kholod (acting, since 2023)

Notes

1. On 30 June 2023, Hirnyk submitted a resignation letter, but the Oblast Council did not support it, de facto keeping him as the First Deputy Chairman.^[1][2]