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Polohy (single-mandate constituency)

No.82
single-mandate constituency
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Province  Zaporizhia Oblast
Polling divisions 176
Population 158,044 (2014)
Major settlements Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk
Current single-mandate constituency
Created For the 1998 election
Seats 1 MP
Election 2014
MP elected Vadym Kryvokhatko
(Poroshenko Bloc), 36%
Party lists Poroshenko Bloc, 20.07%
Opposition Bloc, 17.53%
People's Front, 13.25%
Radical Party, 9.79%
Communist Party, 8.17%
Turnout 43.73%, 71,859 votes

The No.82 single-mandate constituency (Ukrainian: Одномандатний виборчий округ №82, Odnomandatnyi vyborchyi okruh №82), shortened to OVO No.82 (Ukrainian: ОВО №82) is one of 225 electoral districts that elects a member of parliament (people's deputy) to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament.

Ukraine's electoral system is based on the mixed-member proportional representation system, which stipulates that half of a countries MPs are elected from proportional party lists, with the other half elected from first-past-the-post constituencies. A constituency's votes for a political bloc or party is tallied up with the rest of the 224 constituencies to determine the results of the proportional representation voting.

The No.82 single-mandate constituency is located in the northern portion of Zaporizhia Oblast (province) in Ukraine, representing the Huliaipole Raion, Novomykolaivka Raion, part of Orikhiv Raion, Polohy Raion, Vilniansk Raion, Zaporizhia Raions (districts), including the cities of Huliaipole, Polohy, Vilniansk.


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