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The Sumy Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Сумська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Sumy 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

Election date was 25 October 2020^[3]

2015

Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections

Election date was 25 October 2015^[4]

Chairmen

Regional executive committee

• Iosif Gorlov (1939–1941, 1943–1944)
• Alexander Abramov (1944–1948)
• Vasily Shadrin (1948–1950)
• Ivan Martynenko (1950–1953)
• Andrei Kondratenko (1953–1959)
• Trofim Poplevkin (1959–1962)
• Boris Voltovsky (1962–1963)
• Ivan Eremenko (1963–1964; agrarian)
• Mikhail Lushpa (1963–1964; industrial)
• Andrey Naumenko (1964–1973)
• Dmitry Kozenyashev (1973–1982)
• Vladimir Shevchenko (1982–1988)
• Anatoly Bondarenko (1988–1991)
• Volodymyr Shevchenko (1991)

Regional council

• Volodymyr Shevchenko (1990–1991)
• Anatoliy Bondarenko (1991–1994)
• Anatoliy Epifanov (1994–1999)
• Mark Berfman (1999–2006)
• Vyacheslav Shaposhnyk (2006–2009)
• Volodymyr Tokar (2009–2010)
• Hennadiy Mykhailenko (2010–2014)
• Mykola Klochko (2014)
• Vera Lavryk (acting, 2014–2015)
• Semen Salatenko (2015–2016)
• Volodymyr Tokar (2016–2020)
• Viktor Fedorchenko (since 2020)

References