Lviv Oblast Council

Lviv Oblast Council
Lviv Oblast Council
Type
Type	Unicameral
Houses	1
Leadership
Speaker
Structure
Seats	84
Political groups	Government (44) European Solidarity (28); Servant of the People (9); Fatherland (7); Opposition (34) Self Reliance (9); Voice (7); Svoboda (6); People's Movement (6); Ukrainian Galician Party (6); For the Future (6);
Elections
Last election	25 October 2020
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]

References[]

^ Results of the 2020 elections of the Lviv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
^ "Про місцеве самоврядування в Україні".
^ "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.
^ Results of the 2020 elections of the Lviv Oblast Council, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
^ Results. Central Electorate Commission

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