47 majoritarian constituencies do not have their representatives in the Rada: the reason

In the seventh year of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation, 47 majoritarian constituencies still do not have their own representatives. This is shown by the results of an analysis by the civic initiative “Holka,” whose information partner is Glavcom.

Elections in 26 majoritarian constituencies were not held back in 2019 year due to the temporary occupation of parts of the territories, and another 21 constituency became vacant already during the parliament’s term.

The study states that at least four majoritarians fled the country – Yaroslav Dubnevych, Artem Dmytruk, Oleksandr Kunytskyi, and Serhiy Shakhov – yet they retain their mandates and do not work in parliament. Under these circumstances, these politicians do not properly represent the interests of their voters.

According to investigative journalist and data engineer of the civic initiative “Holka,” Oksana Stavniichuk, such problems with parliamentary representation arose because the elections in 2019 year took place under the old electoral system, which was mixed and provided for both party lists and majoritarian constituencies.

Incidentally, the Central Election Commission recently registered Bohdan Morklyanyk and Viktoriia Reznikova as people's deputies of Ukraine. Both were elected from the Servant of the People party list in the parliamentary elections of 2019 year.