Election Calendar: It Begins


Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has issued a decree on ensuring the constitutional electoral rights of citizens, as well as the transparency and openness of the electoral process during the next election of the head of state on January 17, 2010.

The president of Ukraine preparing for the upcoming presidential election, which is three months away. BBC Ukraine has an article enumerating the steps that will taken as part of the election process. Here it is in English, any mistakes below  are mine since the article is in Ukrainian. 

  • 19 October-Election Process Begins
  • 20 October- Begin Candidate submissions 
  • 6 November- Candidate submissions End
  • 13 November-Candidate registrations End
  • 27 November--Form District Election Commissions 
  • 9 December-Create Polling Stations
  • 21 December-Produce Pre-election Candidate Placards
  • 21 December-Form District Election Commission
  • 26 December-Start Publishing Central Election Commission Election guides
  • 27 December- Voter list District Election Commission
  • 2 January-Ban Circulation of information on public opinion polls 
  • 9 January-Election Notice-Time and Place for Voters
  • 16 January-Suspend Disbursement of Election Funds to Candidates
  • 17th January-Election
  • 27 January-Presidential Results
  • 30 January-Report on Presidential Election
  • 1 February-Present information on Candidate Election Fund Accounts
  • 4 February-Publish financial date
  • 26 February-Presidential Inauguration

If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, then there is a run off between the top two candidates. In this case it would be Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych. 

  • Second Round
    • 7 February- Date of 2nd Round of Presidential Election
      • The third Sunday after the presidential election
    • 17 February-Present Election Results
    • 19 March-Presidential Inauguration

The BBC article notes that the inauguration date is not fixed, after the results are presented there are 30 days for the president-elect to assume power. Technically speaking, we may not know who will be the next president until late February. Of course there could be lawsuits,  something comes up with Russia or some other incident occurs that derails the election calendar. 

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