[3] In all, seven parties and blocs passed the 3% threshold needed to gain seats in the Kyiv City Council.

[10] In all, seventy-nine candidates were registered by the Kyiv Territorial Electoral Commission for the upcoming mayoral election.

[19] On 12 December 2008 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced at a news briefing that she was confident that early mayoral elections would be held again in Kyiv.

[22] Day before, the Kyivenerho utility company began cutting the supply of hot water to about 5,000 homes in Kyivbecause of the Kyiv State City Administration's failure to compensate the company for the difference between the tariffs charged by Kyivenerho and the actual cost of its services.

Following the event, Tymoshenko accused Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi of using money from the local budget to finance his election campaign.

[23] On 6 February 2009, the Vitali Klitschko Bloc stated it will apply to the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security and Defense Council and the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office with a request to take into consideration the unlawfulness of Chernovetskyi's actions and to call another snap mayoral elections in the city.

[25][26] A resolution setting another snap election in the capital city for the 30 May 2010 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on 18 January,[27] but was never included in the agenda, being later withdrawn on 16 February.

[31] Legally they had to take place in 2013,[8][9] but in May 2013 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine has set the date of the election to 25 October 2015.