The FINANCIAL — 72.4% of voters have cast their votes for incumbent Khmelnytskyi mayor Serhii Melnyk, the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna Party, in the election to the city mayor, according to the exit poll carried out by GfK Ukraine on request of the Yedynyi Tsentr party.
The second runs Viktor Kolyschak, 9.2%, a candidate from the Yedynyi Tsentr party, leader of the regional organization of the Yedynyi Tsentr party, head of Khmelnytskyi district state administration.
The maximum error in the poll is 4.4%.
As Ukrainian News reported, Khmelnytskyi city election commission registered ten candidates for a city mayor.
These are Mykola Vavrynchuk, former deputy of the regional state administration from the Sobor party, Viktor Kolyschak from the Yedynyi Tsentr party, leader of the Yedynyi Tsentr regional organization, and Serhii Melnyk, from the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna party, incumbent city head.
The All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda nominated Oleksandr Symchyshyn, candidate of history science, deputy head of Khmelnytskyi regional organization Svoboda, while the Ukrainian Social-Democratic party put up former Khmelnytskyi city mayor, deputy head of the State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Mykola Prystupa for a city mayor.
The other candidates for the city mayor are former head of the department of family, youth and sport affairs of Khmelnytskyi regional administration Oleksandr Yakoviuk (New Policy party), temporary unemployed Andrii Bidasiuk (Youth Party of Ukraine), Oleksandr Arabov, Valerii Kozubenko and Ihor Smoliar.
Ukraine held elections to deputies of the Supreme Council of Crimea, local councils, and heads of city, settlement and village councils from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on October 31.
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