Kyiv City Council

History

Empress of Russia Catherine the Great's municipal reform created Kyiv's city council in 1780.

In its 1781 first municipal elections just under 6,000 of Kyiv's 70,500 inhabitants were qualified to vote.

The first post-Soviet democratic elections of the Kyiv City Council took place on 4 March 1990.

The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state (1992). Beginning with 2004, 23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag (in all Ukraine).

During the Euromaidan-protest from 1 December 2013 till 16 February 2014 Kyiv's Town Hall was occupied by protesters; this forced the City Council to meet in the Solomianka Raion state administration building instead.

Composition

Parliamentary parties

The results of the 2020 Kyiv local election:

• 31 European Solidarity
• 30 Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR)
• 14 Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko
• 12 Opposition Platform — For Life
• 12 Servant of the People
• 12 Batkivshchyna
• 9 Holos

References

References

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3. [http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/208052.html Vitali Klitschko sworn in as Kyiv mayor], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (5 June 2014)
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    [https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/ceremony-of-hoisting-ukraines-national-flag-held-a-111423.html Ceremony of hoisting Ukraine's national flag held at presidential administration], [[Kyiv Post]] (23 August 2011))
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14. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210207204112/https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vm2020/pvm057pid112=30pid102=2pf7691=2pt001f01=695rej=0pt00_t001f01=695.html Results of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council], [[Central Election Commission of Ukraine]]