Blue &Yellow: Politics and Economics in Ukraine

Here is a snapshot of the local election results 2010 from Ukrainska Pravda and the second round of the presidential election 2010 (this map doesn't show the final result, but works for the purpose of this blog post).  Its a rough comparison  since the presidential election involved two individuals while the local elections involved political parties. However, I think that its fair to use the presidential election in comparing local elections results. It serves as a proxy for support for Regions and BYuT in February 2010, eight months ago.

The point is to show the shift in support in western and central  Ukraine from Tymoshenko to Regions or fringe parties. I think that the Ternopil election last year was an indicator of how the local elections would play out. Tymoshenko's party would be squeezed out of its strongholds and replace either by Regions or fake/fringe parties that have no change of receiving national support.