Ukraine's 12th electoral district

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.

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2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election^[31]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Our Ukraine	Petro Poroshenko	53,058	51.7	New
	KPU	Hennadiy Papush	7,181	7.0	New
	Unity (Ye–SDS–UPS)	Viktor Vikaliuk	5,174	5.1	New
	Independent	Zinayida Kadynska	3,695	3.6	New
	KPU(o)	Viktor Matviychuk	2,490	2.4	New
	Independent[32]	Oleh Kolesnyk	2,270	2.2	New
	Party of Free Democrats	Valeriy Bilous	2,120	2.1	New
	Independent	Kostiantyn Sarkisov	1,956	1.9	New
	Independent	Olena Pryshchenko	1,926	1.9	New
	Others		9,708	9.5	N/A
	Against all		12,960	12.6	6.1
Majority			45,877	44.7	44.6
Total votes			102,538	100.0
Rejected ballots			3,585	3.4	0.7
Turnout			106,123	66.1	2.7
Registered electors			160,541
	Our Ukraine gain from Independent

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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 attention^[34]. 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 son^[35].

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 control^[36].

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2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Petro Poroshenko Bloc	Oleksiy Poroshenko	62,359	64.0	New
	Self Reliance	Oleksandr Slobodianiuk	13,538	13.9	New
	Batkivshchyna	Serhiy Sitarskiy	6,559	6.7	New
	Radical Party	Volodymyr Sych	3,133	3.2	New
	Independent	Alla Alieksientseva	2,739	2.8	New
	KPU	Volodymyr Sych	2,103	2.2	1.4
	Independent	Vasyl Litskiy	1,444	1.5	New
	Opposition Bloc	Dmytro Kostyrko	1,394	1.4	New
	Independent	Liudmyla Mayster	1,073	1.1	New
	Strong Ukraine	Valentyn Didur	991	1.0	New
	Others		2,039	2.1	N/A
Majority			48,821	50.1	12.3
Total votes			97,372	100.0
Rejected ballots			3,398	3.4	1.5
Turnout			100,770	56.8	2.9
Registered electors			177,262
	Petro Poroshenko Bloc gain from Independent

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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.

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2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Servant of the People	Anatoliy Drabovskyi	26,541	33.2	New
	European Solidarity	Olena Verlan-Kulshenko	10,486	13.1	50.9
	Batkivshchyna	Liudmyla Vakoliuk	8,320	10.4	3.7
	Independent	Leonid Martsynkovskyi	7,913	9.9	New
	SiCh	Serhiy Kryveshko	5,920	7.4	New
	Self Reliance	Volodymyr Okolita	4,466	5.6	8.3
	Opposition Platform	Serhiy Hrushko	3,937	4.9	New
	Svoboda	Volodymyr Bezeliuk	3,900	4.9	New
	Independent	Viktoriya Halitska	2,685	3.4	New
	Opposition Bloc	Denys Mazurenko	1,588	2.0	2.0
	Others		4,121	5.1	N/A
Total votes			79,877	100.0
Rejected ballots			2,894	3.5	0.1
Turnout			82,771	46.6	10.2
Registered electors			177,494
	Servant of the People gain from Petro Poroshenko Bloc		Swing	42.1

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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