Snap parliamentary elections are taking place in Ukraine on Sunday, October 26.
Out of the 424 parliamentary seats available, 225 are being contested among the registered political parties and 199 seats will be contested on a US-style, "first past the post" basis, where the winner will be the individual candidate who obtains the most votes.
Snap parliamentary elections are taking place in Ukraine today, Sunday, October 26.
Above: One of the polling stations in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Above: One of the polling stations in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Out of the 424 parliamentary seats available, 225 are being contested among the registered political parties and 199 seats will be contested on a US-style, "first past the post" basis, where the winner will be the individual candidate who obtains the most votes.
Above: Pyotr Simonenko,leader of Ukraine's Communist Party, at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine. His party almost wasn't registered at all: new legislation to introduce “lustration” was proposed in Ukraine over the summer which would have banned the communists from holding high public office.
Above: Pyotr Simonenko,leader of Ukraine's Communist Party, at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine. His party almost wasn't registered at all: new legislation to introduce “lustration” was proposed in Ukraine over the summer which would have banned the communists from holding high public office.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko made a surprise visit to the country's beleaguered south-east to inspect local polling stations and troop deployment areas.
Above: Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko at a polling station in Kramatorsk during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine. After a protracted struggle with separatists that saw control of this city in the Donetsk region switch hands several times, Kramatorsk was retaken a final time by government forces in early July.
Above: Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko at a polling station in Kramatorsk during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine. After a protracted struggle with separatists that saw control of this city in the Donetsk region switch hands several times, Kramatorsk was retaken a final time by government forces in early July.
"This is our duty to the "heavenly hundred" [a term denoting activists killed during pro-European protests in the 2013-2014 Kiev Euromaidan uprising], to the thousands of our Ukrainian patriots who died on the front line, and to the millions who stood in city squares throughout Ukraine," Yulia Tymoshenko said of the election, according to a press release issued by her party.
Above: Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party leader Yulia Tymoshenko with her husband (R) at a polling station in Dnepropetrovsk during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Above: Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party leader Yulia Tymoshenko with her husband (R) at a polling station in Dnepropetrovsk during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
According to Poroshenko's wife, her husband visited Ukraine's war-torn east to "personally monitor how the elections in the [Luhansk and Donetsk] regions are held".
Above: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's wife, Marina, at a polling station during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Above: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's wife, Marina, at a polling station during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Up to three million people living in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will not participate in the election.
Above: Radical Pary leader Oleh Lyashko at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Above: Radical Pary leader Oleh Lyashko at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Ukraine's Central Election Commission expects to receive its first preliminary data on the election's results between midnight and 01:00 a.m. local time on Monday, October 27.
Above: Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk with his daughter Sophia at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
Above: Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk with his daughter Sophia at a polling station in Kiev during the snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
