Editing Elections in Ukraine (section)

===Past legislation===
The parliamentary election law has been changed four times from 1991 to 2015.<ref name=newUKRelectionlawof171111/><ref name="Law for POR?">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/114020/ Experts: Proposed election law casts cloud over next year’s parliamentary contest], [[Kyiv Post]] (October 3, 2011)</ref> Before 1998 all the members of the Parliament were elected by single-seat [[constituency|constituencies]] (from each electoral district). In 1998 and in 2002 half of the members were elected by [[proportional representation]] (faction vote) and the other half by single-seat constituencies. In the [[2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election|2006]] and [[2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election|2007 parliamentary election]], all 450 members of the Verkhovna Rada were elected by [[party-list proportional representation]] with [[closed list]]s<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Wp7VKL4p7kQC&dq=%22Closed+list%22+Ukraine&pg=PA251 Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, And Institutional Design] by [[Paul D'Anieri]], [[M.E. Sharpe]], 2006, {{ISBN|0-7656-1811-7}} (page 251)</ref><ref>[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/65992/ Black Sea Fleet vote: Know thy turncoats], [[Kyiv Post]] (May 6, 2010)</ref><ref>[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/41069/ Ukraine needs constitutional change now], [[Kyiv Post]] (May 7, 2009)</ref> (the same goes for local elections).<ref name="DemoWhat?">[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/71677/ Parliament rejects bill on local elections under open lists], [[Kyiv Post]] (July 1, 2010)</ref>

In the [[2010 Ukrainian local elections]] four years was set for the office of the heads of villages and towns and the council members of these villages and towns.<ref name=IU162135yle/><ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/afet/dv/201/201011/20101118_reportelecukr_en.pdf European Parliament EU-Ukraine PCC Members' delegation to Ukraine observing local and regional elections of 31 October 2010], [[European Parliament]] (10 November 2010)</ref>