Mayor of Kyiv

Mayor of Kiev City
Kiev City Council building
Incumbent Vitali Klitschko since 5 June 2014
Appointer	Popular vote
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	Leonid Kosakivsky
Formation	1994
Website	kmr.gov.ua

Mayor of Kiev (Ukrainian: Київський міський голова, Kyivskyi miskyi holova; literally Head of the Kiev City) is an elected by popular vote head of the Kiev city (the capital of Ukraine) and chairperson the Kiev City Council. It should not be confused with the chairperson of the Kiev city administration.

The mayor is elected for the term of four years. Current mayor Vitali Klitschko was sworn in on 5 June 2014. Klitschko had won the 25 May 2014 Kiev mayoral elections with almost 57% of the votes.

According to the Kiev City Electoral Commission, Chernovetsky won in 2006 31.83% of the popular vote, Vitali Klitschko placed second with 23.7%, and incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko placed third with 21.2%.

As of December 2006, the rating of Chernovetsky decreased to 8%. That is mostly due to his betrayal of those who elected him, most notably through his increasing of the price of household services (such as hot and cold running water and gas) by 340%.

Leonid Chernovetskyi won another term as Mayor of Kiev with 38% of the vote in the May 25, 2008 snap local election, called on by the Verkhovna Rada in March. Since the resignation of Chernovetsky in July 2012, the Kiev City Council Secretary and Deputy Mayor was the acting Mayor of Kiev.

In the 2014 Kiev local election Vitali Klitschko won the election for mayor of Kiev with almost 57% of the votes. Klitschko was sworn in as mayor on 5 June 2014.

The last Kiev local election (including Mayoral elections) took place on 25 October 2015. A second round of Mayoral elections will be held on 15 November 2015 between Klitschko and Boryslav Bereza after incumbent Mayor Klitschko scored 40.5% of the vote and Bereza 8.8% in the first round.