Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council
Legislature of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Запорізька обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council | |
|---|---|
| |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | 1 |
| Leadership | |
Olena Zhuk | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 84 |
 | |
Political groups |
|
| Elections | |
Last election | 25 October 2020[1] |
| Meeting place | |
 | |
| Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast | |
| Website | |
| https://www.zor.gov.ua | |
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
2024
On 21st of March 2024, the Verkhovna Rada transferred the powers of the ZOC to the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration. The reason is the impossibility of gathering a quorum, since some of the deputies are representatives of the territories occupied by Russia.[3]
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
- 28 Opposition Bloc
- 13 Solidarity
- 10 Our Land
- 8 Fatherland
- 7 UKROP
- 6 Radical Party
- 6 Self Reliance
- 6 New Politics
Election date was 25 October 2015[5]
Chairmen
Regional executive committee
- Daniil Lezhenko (1939)
- Zakhary Dorofeev (1939–1941, 1943–1944)
- Vasily Ponomarenko (1944–1950)
- Nikolai Titov (1950–1951)
- Vasily Ponomarenko (1951–1952)
- Vladimir Skryabin (1952–1958)
- Fyodor Mokrous (1958–1963)
- Pavel Sklyarov (1963–1964; industrial)
- Alexander Guyva (1963–1964; agrarian)
- Pyotr Chervenko (1964; agrarian)
- Fyodor Mokrous (1964–1969)
- Mikhail Khorunzhiy (1969–1976)
- Pyotr Moskalkov (1976–1988)
- Volodymyr Demianov (1988–1991)
Regional council
- Hryhoriy Kharchenko (1990)
- Vyacheslav Pokhvalsky (1990–1991)
- Volodymyr Demianov (1991–1992)
- Vyacheslav Pokhvalsky (1992–1998)
- Volodymyr Berezovsky (1998–2006)
- Oleksandr Nefiodov (2006–2010)
- Pavlo Matvienko (2010–2013)
- Viktor Mezheyko (2013–2015)
- Hryhoriy Samardak (2015–2020)
- Vitaliy Bogovin (2020)
- Olena Zhuk (since 2020)
