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The Poltava Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Полтавська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Poltava Oblast (province) located in central Ukraine.

Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.^[2]

Recent elections

2020

Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections^[3]

Election date was 25 October 2020^[4]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

15 Solidarity
13 Fatherland
8 Radical Party
8 UKROP
8 Social-Democratic Party
7 Svoboda
7 Agrarian Party
6 Native City
6 Opposition Bloc
6 Revival

Election date was 25 October 2015^[5]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

Panteleymon Zhuchenko (1937–1938)
Ivan Martynenko (1938–1941, 1943–1950)
Alexei Koval (1950–1953)
Nikolai Rozhanchuk (1953–1955)
Andrei Cherchenko (1955–1959)
Alexander Muzhitsky (1959–1962)
Nikolai Kirichenko (1962–1963)
Maxim Onipko (1963–1964, industrial)
Stepan Boyko (1963–1964, agrarian)
Stepan Boyko (1964–1974)
Grigory Pudenko (1974–1978)
Grigory Ustimenko (1978–1984)
Alexei Myakota (1984–1988)
Ivan Gopey (1988–1992)

Regional council

Alexei Myakota (1990–1991)
Ivan Gopey (1991–1994)
Mykola Zaludyak (1994–1998)
Oleksandr Poliievets (1998–2002)
Yevhen Tomin (2002)
Volodymyr Hryshko (2002–2006)
Volodymyr Marchenko (acting, 2006)
Oleksandr Udovichenko (2006–2010)
Volodymyr Marchenko (2010)
Ivan Momot (2010–2014)
Petro Vorona (2014–2015)
Oleksandr Bilenkyi (since 2015)

References

^ [Results of the 2020 elections of the Poltava Oblast Council], Central Election Commission of Ukraine
^ "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.
^ (in Ukrainian) The Dovira party won the most votes in the Poltava regional council elections, Ukrinform (6 November 2020)
^ Ukrainian local elections: Zelenskyy fairytale is over by Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council (26 October 2020)
^ Results. Central Electorate Commission

[1] [Results of the 2020 elections of the Poltava Oblast Council], Central Election Commission of Ukraine

[2] "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.

[3] (in Ukrainian) The Dovira party won the most votes in the Poltava regional council elections, Ukrinform (6 November 2020)

[4] Ukrainian local elections: Zelenskyy fairytale is over by Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council (26 October 2020)

[5] Results. Central Electorate Commission

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Regional legislatures of Ukraine
Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk² Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kyiv Kirovohrad Luhansk² Lviv Mykolaiv Odesa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhzhia Zhytomyr
Cities with special status	Kyiv Sevastopol¹
Autonomous republic	Crimea¹
¹Occupied by Russia and administered as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol; ²Due to the war in Donbass, regular functions of regional councils in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were suspended until the end of hostilities.