Electoral districts of Ukraine

Ukraine is divided into 225 electoral districts for election organization and representation in the Verkhovna Rada.

Each of the country's oblasts (regions) are divided into multiple districts, with a single MP representing each.

[1] As a result, there were vacant seats in the 8th and 9th convocations of the Verkhovna Rada, which should have been occupied by majority MPs from the electoral districts in Crimea and in Donbas.

The law stipulates that the deviation of the number of voters in the electoral district from the national average should not exceed 12%.

In addition, territories inhabited by national minorities and adjacent to each other must be included into one electoral district.

Referring to this provision, the Hungarian national minority in Zakarpattia Oblast demands the restoration of Tisza electoral district, which existed prior to 2012, but in 2012 the Hungarians were divided between 73rd, 68th and 69th electoral districts, where they now are the minority of voters, which deprived them of the ability to elect their own deputy to the Verkhovna Rada.