Ukraine's 82nd electoral district

The No.82 single-mandate constituency (Ukrainian: Одномандатний виборчий округ №82, Odnomandatnyi vyborchyi okruh №82), shortened to OVO No.82 (Ukrainian: ОВО №82) is one of 225 electoral districts that elects a member of parliament (people's deputy) to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament.

No.82
Single-mandate constituency
Region	Zaporizhia Oblast
Polling divisions	176[1]
Population	158,044 (2014)[2]
Major settlements	Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk[3]
Current single-mandate constituency
Created	For the 1998 election
Seats	1 MP
Election	2019
MP elected	Maryna Nikitina Servant of the People[4]
Party lists	Servant of the People, 54.66% Opposition Platform — For Life, 18.97% Fatherland, 5.05% Opposition Bloc, 3.85% Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, 3.78%[5]
Turnout	43.73%, 71,859 votes[5]

Ukraine's electoral system is based on the mixed-member proportional representation system, which stipulates that half of a countries MPs are elected from proportional party lists, with the other half elected from first-past-the-post constituencies. A constituency's votes for a political bloc or party is tallied up with the rest of the 224 constituencies to determine the results of the proportional representation voting.^[6]

Location

The No.82 single-mandate constituency is located in the northern portion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast (province) in Ukraine, representing the Huliaipole Raion, Novomykolaivka Raion, part of Orikhiv Raion, Polohy Raion, Vilniansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Raions (districts), including the cities of Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk.^[3]