Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009

Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009

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All 120 seats to the Ternopil Oblast Council
First party Second party Third party   Leader Oleh Tyahnybok United Centre Viktor Yanukovych Party Svoboda United Centre Party of Regions Leader since 14 February 2004 27 March 2008 19 April 2003 Last election 0 seats, 2.69% N/A 0 seats, 1.60% Seats won 50 20 14 Seat change +50 +20 +14 Popular vote 154,325 63,207 43,616 Percentage 34.69% 14.20% 9.80% Swing +32.00% +14.20% +8.20%
Results of the 2009 Ternopil Oblast local election.
Head of Council before election Mykhailo Mykolayenko Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Elected Head of Council Oleksiy Kaida Svoboda

Mykhailo Mykolayenko
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc

Oleksiy Kaida
Svoboda

The Ternopil Oblast local election, 2009 elections in the Ternopil Oblast regional сouncil, were held on March 15, 2009 on December 18, 2008, by the Ukrainian Parliament initiated by Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) but cancelled on 3 March 2009 by the same Parliament, with most members of BYuT voting against holding the snap elections (allegedly because of the fall of the ratings for BYuT). Following a lawsuit filed by Svoboda the Ternopil oblast` court acknowledged this decision illegal on March 11, 2009. The next day BYuT lodged an appeal in the Lviv Administrative Appeal Court against this decision.

On 13 March 2009, President Viktor Yushchenko asked the Constitutional Court to estimate the constitutionality of the Ukrainian Parliament’s decision to cancel the early regional council elections in Ternopil. According to Yuschenko the Constitution reads that Parliament can appoint elections or early elections into the local authorities, but cannot cancel them. The elections were held on 15 March 2009. The Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko called the election "the presentation of cynical election fraud by [Head of the Presidential Secretariat Viktor] Baloha as an expression of the will of the region's citizens".

Some villages reported cases Party of Regions representatives offering 50 hryvnia per vote.

On March 24, the Ternopil district administrative court rejected a lawsuit from the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) challenging the results of the elections. Four days later the Kyiv district administrative court banned the official publication of the result of the elections.