# 2020 Cherkasy regional election

The 2020 Cherkasy regional election was held on 25 October 2020, to elect the 8th Oblast Council. All 64 deputies were up for election, decreased from 84 in 2015. The elections were held simultaneously with local elections in Kyiv and twenty-four other oblasts throughout Ukraine.
Cherkashchany became the largest party in the Oblast Council, with Servant of the People and For the Future coming second and third respectively, with 12 seats both. European Solidarity, previously called Petro Poroshenko Bloc, was the biggest party in the council in 2015, but fell to fourth place with just 9 seats. Radical Party of Oleh Liashko and Svoboda fell below the 5% threshold and lost their representation.

## Electoral system

These were the first elections held under the newly adopted Electoral Code, which provided a fully proportional electoral system at the both local and national levels.
Each party had to form two lists: the first is united for the entire city, and the second is for individual territorial districts. The party would receive a mandate if it overcomes the 5% threshold. In this case, the No.1 candidate on the list is guaranteed to receive a seat. Candidates who receive 25% or more of the electoral quota of their district get to the top of the list in descending order of the number of votes for them. In the case of an equal number of votes, the order of candidates will remain as determined by the party at the time of voting. After the candidates who passed to the council according to the quota, the rest are placed in the order determined by the party.
Electoral quota is the number of votes needed to obtain one seat. The electoral quota is determined by the territorial election commission. For this, the commission needed to divide the total number of votes for those parties that won at least 5 percent of the voters' votes and are now participating in the distribution of mandates by the number of mandates. The number of seats into which the electoral votes had to be divided is the difference between the number of seats in the council and the number of guaranteed seats for each party that entered the council (one seat per party).
Prior to the election, Cherkasy Regional Territorial Electoral Commission divided the oblast into 7 electoral districts (okruh) with an almost even population, based on existing districts (raion) and Cherkasy, with an unfixed amount of seats.
| District | Territory represented |
| No.1 | Cherkasy (Prydniprovskyi) |
| No.2 | Cherkasy (Sosnivskyi) |
| No.3 | Cherkasy Raion |
| No.4 | Cherkasy Raion |
| No.5 | Zvenyhorodka Raion |
| No.6 | Uman Raion |
| No.7 | Zolotonosha Raion |

## Parties and candidates

Below is a list of the main parties which contested the election:
| Party | Party | Party | Lead candidate | Ideology | 2015 result | 2015 result |
| Party | Party | Party | Lead candidate | Ideology | % | Seats |
| | YeS | European Solidarity Європейська солідарність | Roman Sushchenko | Liberal conservatism | 17.54% | 18 / 84 |
| | Cherkashchany | Cherkashchany Черкащани | Anatolii Pidhornyi | Localism | 15.54% | 16 / 84 |
| | Batkivshchyna | Batkivshchyna Батьківщина | Yurii Trenkin | Populism | 12.53% | 13 / 84 |
| | RPOL | Radical Party of Oleh Liashko Радикальна партія Олега Ляшка | Oleksandr Korniienko | Left-wing populism | 10.25% | 10 / 84 |
| | Svoboda | Svoboda Свобода | Oleksandr Loshkov | Ultranationalism | 7.52% | 7 / 84 |
| | PVA | Party of Veterans of Afghanistan Партія ветеранів Афганістану | Serhii Yakymchuk | Veterans' rights | 5.01% | 5 / 84 |
| | SN | Servant of the People Слуга народу | Serhii Lisovyi | Liberalism | New | New |
| | ZM | For the Future За майбутнє | Anton Yatsenko | Economic nationalism | New | New |
| | OPZZh | Opposition Platform — For Life Опозиційна платформа – За життя | Volodymyr Domanskyi | Social democracy | New | New |
| Not contesting |||||||
| | Revival | Revival Відродження | Revival Відродження | Economic nationalism | 8.15% | 8 / 84 |
| | UKROP | Ukrainian Association of Patriots Українське об'єднання патріотів | Ukrainian Association of Patriots Українське об'єднання патріотів | Ukrainian nationalism | 6.94% | 7 / 84 |

## Campaign
### Party slogans

| Party | Original slogan | English translation |
| Cherkashchany | «Голосуй за своїх!» | "Vote for your people!" |
| SN | «Буде так, як вирішиш ти!» | "It will be the way as you decide!" |
| ZM | «Робили, робимо і будемо робити» | "We have done, are doing and will continue to do" |
| YeS | «Обирай кращих! Обирай ЄС» | "Choose better ones! Choose YeS" |
| Batkivshchyna | «Надійна команда порядних людей!» | "A reliable team of decent people!" |
| OPZZh | «Крокуємо до комфортної громади» | "Moving towards a comfortable community" |

### Debates

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| Date | Organisers | Moderator(s) | ChE | SN | ZM | YeS | B | OPZZh | KSR | SiCh | RPOL | NK | H | PVA | SP | S | PRO | Ref. |
| 7 October | UA:Cherkasy | Maryna Denysenko | S Petrenko | NI | NI | NI | P Trenkin | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | P Shmyhol | S Dehteriov | NI | NI | NI | |
| 8 October | UA:Cherkasy | Maryna Denysenko | NI | S Novytskyi | A | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | P Korniienko | P Zviriaka | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | |
| 9 October | UA:Cherkasy | Maryna Denysenko | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | P Domanskyi | NI | P Boiechko | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | P Loshkov | A | |
| 12 October | UA:Cherkasy | Maryna Denysenko | NI | NI | NI | S Koval | NI | NI | A | NI | NI | NI | NI | NI | S Vysochyn | NI | NI | |

## Opinion polls

| Fieldwork date | Polling firm | Sample size | | | | | | | | | | | | Other | Lead |
| 26 September-2 October 2020 | Hromadska dumka | 2,400 | 13.1 | 11.8 | 14.4 | 7.0 | — | 9.8 | 19.7 | 11.6 | 6.3 | — | — | 4.7 | 5.3 |
| 10-15 September 2020 | Rating | 1,600 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 12.1 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 20.5 | 21.5 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 8.5 | 1.0 |
| 6-14 September 2020 | Hromadska dumka | 2,400 | 14.8 | 11.5 | 17.3 | 6.7 | — | 8.1 | 24.0 | — | 7.4 | — | — | 10.3 | 6.7 |
| 25 October 2015 | 2015 Cherkasy regional election | 2015 Cherkasy regional election | 17.54 | 15.54 | 12.53 | 10.25 | 7.52 | 0.99 | — | — | — | — | — | 35.63 | 2.0 |

## Results

| | Cherkashchany | 67,002 | 21.41 | 18 | +2 |
| | Servant of the People | 45,338 | 14.49 | 12 | New |
| | For the Future | 42,663 | 13.64 | 12 | +5 |
| | European Solidarity | 33,461 | 10.69 | 9 | –9 |
| | Batkivshchyna | 24,057 | 7.69 | 7 | –6 |
| | Opposition Platform — For Life | 19,686 | 6.29 | 6 | New |
| | Serhii Rudyk's Team — Time for Change! | 14,036 | 4.49 | 0 | New |
| | Strength and Honor | 10,869 | 3.47 | 0 | New |
| | Radical Party of Oleh Liashko | 9,164 | 2.93 | 0 | –10 |
| | Our Land | 9,066 | 2.90 | 0 | 0 |
| | Holos | 8,478 | 2.71 | 0 | New |
| | Party of Veterans of Afghanistan | 7,650 | 2.44 | 0 | –5 |
| | Self Reliance | 7,579 | 2.42 | 0 | New |
| | Svoboda | 7,558 | 2.42 | 0 | –7 |
| | Proposition | 6,278 | 2.01 | 0 | New |
| Total | Total | 312,885 | 100.00 | 64 | –20 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 312,885 | 91.54 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 28,906 | 8.46 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 341,791 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 969,137 | 35.27 | | |
| Source: CEC ||||||