Lviv Oblast Council
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Leadership
Yevhenii Hirnyk (acting)
Structure
Seats84
Political groups
Government (44)
  •   European Solidarity (28)
  •   Servant of the People (9)
  •   Fatherland (7)

Opposition (34)

Elections
Last election
25 October 2020[1]
Meeting place
Government House, Lviv, Lviv Oblast
Website
https://lvivoblrada.gov.ua/

The Lviv Oblast Council or Lviv Regional Council (Ukrainian: Львівська обласна рада) is the regional council (parliament) of the Lviv Oblast (region) located in western Ukraine.

Legislative framework

The Regional Council is a local self-government body representing the common interests of territorial communities of villages, towns and cities within the powers defined by the Constitution of Ukraine and Ukrainian Law On Local Self-Government in Ukraine.[2]

Composition and work procedure

The Lviv Regional Council consists of 84 members who are elected by Lviv Region residents on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage. Council members are elected for a five year term. In order to gain representation in the Council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.[3]

The Council meets in regular and extraordinary sessions. The session is plenipotentiary if more than a half of its members (at least 43) participate in the meeting.

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections

Election date was 25 October 2020[4]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

Election date was 25 October 2015[5]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

  • Nikolai Kozyrev (1939–1940)
  • Pyotr Timchenko (1940–1941)
  • Nikolai Kozyrev (1944–1949)
  • Kuzma Pelekhaty (1949–1952)
  • Pyotr Mirgorodsky (1952, acting)
  • Pyotr Kozlanyuk (1952–1954)
  • Semyon Stefanik (1954–1963)
  • Fyodor Koval (1963–1964; industrial)
  • Semyon Stefanik (1963–1964; agrarian)
  • Semyon Stefanik (1964–1969)
  • Timofey Telishevsky (1969–1979)
  • Pyotr Shavkov (1979–1980, acting)
  • Mikhail Kirei (1980–1990)
  • Stepan Davimuka (1990–1991)

Regional council

  • Viacheslav Chornovil (1990–1992)
  • Mykola Horyn (1992–1997)
  • Orest Furdychko (1997–1998)
  • Stepan Senchuk (1998–2001)
  • Yaroslav Hadzalo (2001–2002)
  • Mykhailo Sendak (2002–2006)
  • Myroslav Senyk (2006–2010)
  • Oleg Pankevych (2010–2012)
  • Petro Kolodiy (2012–2015)
  • Oleksandr Hanushchyn (2015–2020)
  • Iryna Hrymak (2020–2023)
  • Yevhenii Hirnyk (acting, since 2023)

References

  1. ↑ Results of the 2020 elections of the Lviv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  2. ↑ "Про місцеве самоврядування в Україні".
  3. ↑ "Elections in Kharkiv Region: Kernes' Son in the Regional Council and Local Success "Servants of the People"". The Ukrainian Week (in Ukrainian). 10 November 2020.
    "How to win elections under the new Electoral Code". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 19 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Results of the 2020 elections of the Lviv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  5. ↑ Results. Central Electorate Commission
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