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Local elections in ukraine 20201/3/2024 ![]() ![]() According to data from the Ukrainian Civil Network OPORA, the final voter turnout was 35.94 percent. It has taken several days for all results to be tabulated, but what is now clear is that contrary to expectations, voter turnout was at an all-time low. But despite the new voting system being billed as an improvement, voters had to fill out as many as four ballots in some districts instead of a single, consolidated slate. In theory, these two factors should have produced increased voter participation, not least of which as a positive result of the increased “resources and decision-making freedom that will be at hand locally,” as one local business news commentator wrote just prior to the vote. These were the first elections to be held both under a new voting system and since the implementation of a set of decentralization reforms. In the past, these elections have been seen as a bellwether of what was to come in national elections. Local elections for city parliaments, district councils and rural townships, as well as for mayors and other city and municipal offices were held on October 25. ![]() ![]() While results varied across different regions, it’s clear most of the population has grown ambivalent and cynical about the political process, with their country is battered by economic hardship, invasion by Russia, a thus-far disappointing record of performance by the current President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and now the disastrous effects of COVID-19. ![]() As Americans prepare for the potential of a long, drawn-out flurry of balloting litigation in various states, Ukrainians are still pondering what their recent local elections mean for the future of their nation. ![]()
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