Lviv_Oblast_Council
Lviv Oblast Council
Legislature of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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 | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
Yevhenii Hirnyk (acting) | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 84 |
Political groups | Government (44)
Opposition (34)
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| Elections | |
Last election | 25 October 2020[1] |
| Meeting place | |
| Government House, Lviv, Lviv Oblast | |
| Website | |
| https://lvivoblrada.gov.ua/ | |
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.
2020
Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections
Election date was 25 October 2020[4]
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[5]
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, since 2023)
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"How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.