Electoral district 12 (, ), shortened to OVO No.12 () is one of 225 electoral districts that elects a member of parliament (people's deputy) to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament.
The district was originally established for the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election under mixed electoral system. It was abolished ahead of the 2006 parliamentary election following the adoption of a fully proportional electoral systemhttps://www.president.gov.ua/documents/2777-iv-2941, before being re-established in its current form for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary electionhttps://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/v0082359-12, after two parliamentary elections under the PR system.
In its current form, it comprises the eastern part of the city of Vinnytsia and the settlements located east of the city. Within Vinnytsia, the district boundary generally follows the Southern Bug River, although it also includes several settlements west of the city.
As of 2019, the constituency was home to 177,501 electorshttps://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp095_2pt001f01=919pt049f01=2.html and had 116 polling stationshttps://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp030pt001f01=919.html.
The district is notable for having been represented by the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, who served as its People's Deputy for three convocations before his election to the presidency. Between 2014 and 2019, in the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, the district was represented by his son, Oleksii Poroshenko. Since 2019, it has been represented by Anatoliy Drabovskyi of the Servant of the People party.
Location
The district is located in the north-central part of Vinnytsia Oblast (province) . It comprises the eastern part of the city of Vinnytsia and part of Vinnytsia Raion situated on the eastern bank of the Southern Bug. Within Vinnytsia, the river forms most of the district's western boundary, with the opposite bank belonging to Electoral District No. 11. The district also contains two exclaves to the north-west and south-west of Vinnytsia, which are separated from the main body of the district by Electoral Districts No. 11 and No. 14.
It borders Electoral District No. 13 to the north, Electoral District No. 18 to the east, Electoral District No. 14 to the west and south, and Electoral District No. 11 to the west.
History The electoral district was established in 1998 in preparation for the upcoming 29 March parliamentary election, carved out of the No.55 single-mandate constituency after a redistricting. For the 1998, 2002, 2012, 2014, and the 2019 parliamentary elections, Ukraine used a mixed-member proportional representation system to elect MPs, with half of the parliament's 450 seats being elected on a proportional representation system, with the other half elected on a first-past-the-post system in 225 single-mandate constituencies.
During the 2006 and 2007 parliamentary elections, all of the 225 single-mandate constituencies were replaced with territorial constituencies. During these elections, Vinnytsia was represented by the No.9 territorial constituency (, ), which was in effect a combination of the 11th and 12th districts of previous elections.
List of deputies
Convocation MP Term of office Percent Votes Elected as Refs. I Represented by No.24, No.25, and No.31 electoral constituencies II Represented by No.47, No.49, and No.55 electoral constituencies III Petro Poroshenko 12 May 1998 14 May 2002 18.2 18,809 Independent IV 14 May 2002 8 September 2005 51.7 53,058 Our Ukraine Bloc Vacant 8 September 2005 25 May 2006 - - Vacant V No.12 single-mandate constituency abolished—No.9 territorial constituency established VI VII Petro Poroshenko 12 December 2012 3 June 2014 71.5 73,493 Independent Vacant 3 June 2014 27 November 2014 - - Vacant VIII Oleksiy Poroshenko 27 November 2014 29 August 2019 64.0 62,359 Petro Poroshenko Bloc IX Anatoliy Drabovskyi 29 August 2019 Incumbent 33.2 26,541 Servant of the People
Election results Although the No.12 single-mandate constituency was established for four of Ukraine's parliamentary elections, this area is represented by the No.12 territorial constituency for presidential elections, as was the case in 1999, 2004, 2010, and 2014. Accordingly, this presidential election constituency voted for President Leonid Kuchma in 1999, President Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, front-runner Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in 2010, and President Poroshenko himself in 2014.Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine data for 1999, 2004, 2010, and 2014 presidential elections.
Parliamentary elections 1998
At the time of the election, 32-year-old Petro Poroshenko was chairman of the supervisory board of the Vinnytsia Confectionery Factory and ran as an independent candidate. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the newly created district for the first time, narrowly defeating his closest rival Volodymyr Skomarovskyi, also an independent candidate by just 58 votes (or 0.06%).
2002
In the 2002 parliamentary election, Poroshenko contested the district as a candidate of Our Ukraine, led by Viktor Yushchenko, rather than as an independent candidate. He was re-elected, securing an increased majority and defeating his closest challenger Hennadiy Papush of the Communist Party of Ukraine by 44.7 percentage points. The opposition vote was highly fragmented among several candidates, while 12.6% of voters chose the “against all” option.
Following the abolition of single-member electoral districts and the introduction of a fully proportional electoral system, Poroshenko contested the 2006 parliamentary election from the Our Ukraine party list and was elected to the 5th Verkhovna Rada.
2012
The election was a landslide victory for Petro Poroshenko, who, running as an independent candidate, won the district with 71.5% of the vote, defeating his closest challenger Volodymyr Bazeliuk of the Svoboda party by 62.4 percentage points. The result marked Poroshenko's return to Parliament as the district's representative after the reintroduction of single-member districts in 2012.
After being elected President of Ukraine, Poroshenko resigned his parliamentary mandate on 3 June 2014 . As a result, the seat remained vacant until the next parliamentary election.
2014
In the 2014 parliamentary election, the district was won by Oleksii Poroshenko, the son of President Petro Poroshenko, whose candidacy attracted significant media attentionhttps://rus.lb.ua/news/2014/09/25/280556_poroshenko_sin_reshil_idti.html. At the time, Oleksii Poroshenko was a deputy general director of a food company and a member of Vinnytsia Oblast Council. Running for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, he won the election in a landslide with 64.0% of the vote, defeating his closest rival Oleksandr Slobodianiuk of the Self Reliance party by 50.1% margin. Petro Poroshenko stated that the decision to contest the single-member district was made independently by his sonhttps://rus.lb.ua/news/2014/09/25/280556_poroshenko_sin_reshil_idti.html.
In the nationwide proportional vote, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc received 44.1% of the vote in the district, its highest result among electoral districts fully under Ukrainian government controlhttps://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp005pt001f01=910.html.
2019
Oleksii Poroshenko did not seek re-election in 2019. The district was won by Anatoliy Drabovskyi of the Servant of the People party, marking a significant 42.1 percentage-point swing from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
In the nationwide proportional representation vote held in the district, European Solidarity, the successor party led by Petro Poroshenko, finished third with 10.3% of the vote, behind Servant of the People and Groysman’s Ukrainian Strategy.
The district also had the lowest turnout among all electoral districts in Vinnytsia Oblast, with 47.3% of voters casting ballots, 10 percentage points lower than in the 2014 election.
Presidential elections
2014
In the 2014 presidential election, Petro Poroshenko, the district's People’s Deputy at the time, won in it with 75.2% of the vote, recording his best result among all electoral districts in Ukraine where the election took place.
2019
First round
Second round
See also Imperative mandate, Ukrainian constitutional provision
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