Zaporizhia Oblast
In early 2014, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology polling showed that 38.4% of the residents of Donetsk Oblast and 41.9% of the residents of Luhansk Oblast wanted to transform Ukraine into a federal state. The comparable percentages were 32.2% in Kharkiv Oblast, 17.5% in Odessa Oblast, 15.3% in Zaporizhia Oblast, 11.4% in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 10.7% in Mykolayiv Oblast, and 6.9% in Kherson Oblast.