Ukrainian parliamentary election - 26 October 2014

[Famous Mortimer]

Just wanted to share this hilarious article from TeleSur, the Venezuelan based pan-Latin America news agency. It literally just makes up numbers for Svoboda and Right Sectors and says they won seats.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ukraine-Elections-Boost-Far-Right-20141027-0004.html

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Volya means Will, I think. Anyone got any idea who they are?

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Volya party is apparently pro-Western. It ran its own candidates in constituencies but in the list section, it ran on the Samopomich list.

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How come the Poroshenko bloc won so many more seats than Popular Front despite the popular vote tie?

FPTP seats.

[Famous Mortimer]

How come the Poroshenko bloc won so many more seats than Popular Front despite the popular vote tie?

These are just the FPTP seats. Basically, there are 225 PR seats and 225 FPTP seats (of which 27 had no election this time due to Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, so they will stay vacant for the moment). Allocation of the PR seats is pending the final count.

Given the closeness of the party list vote and the lopsidedness of the FPTP results though, the Poroshenko Bloc will be the largest party even when both are combined.

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How come the Poroshenko bloc won so many more seats than Popular Front despite the popular vote tie?

These are just the FPTP seats. Basically, there are 225 PR seats and 225 FPTP seats (of which 27 had no election this time due to Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, so they will stay vacant for the moment). Allocation of the PR seats is pending the final count.

Yeah but this doesn't explain why there's such a discrepancy between FPP and PR results.

What do you mean? People are splitting their ticket. People vote for the Popular Front on the list vote because they like what they stand for (supporting Poroshenko but opposing the ceasefire) and then vote for an individual candidate from a different party because most Popular Front politicians are actually pretty sucky. Also Poroshenko attracted more big names to run for FPTP seats than other parties.