Ukraine parliamentary election

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Takes place on October 26. here is a good summary of the key issues and players.

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Exit polls say Poroshenko's bloc (comprising his party and Vitali Klitschko's) has 23%, People's Front (party of current PM Yatsenyuk) has 21%, Samopomich 13%, Opposition bloc (mostly ex Party of Regions) 8%, Radical 6%, Svoboda 6% and Tymoshenko's party 5.6%. This would suggest all the polls were wildly wrong except for the basic fact of Poroshenko's bloc winning a plurality.

There was no voting in a total of 27 constituencies - 12 in Crimea and 15 in the Donbass.

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Full results for the list here and the FPTP seats here. Some good fun for fans of comedy vote splits in FPTP seats, e.g. this seat in Ivano-Frankivsk. The biggest percentage mandate (if you can call it that) came in the one Donetsk city-area seat to actually have a ballot, electing the former PM Yukhym Zvyahilsky with 72% on a turnout of roughly 1%. The seat theoretically includes a large chunk of Donetsk city (the Kyivskiy district in the north-west) as well as the town of Yasynuvata north of Donetsk, but both of these are under rebel control and it is only the town of Avdiivka north west of the city that remains government-held in this seat.

The Popular Front edged out Poroshenko's bloc on the list (contrary to all of the polling) but the bloc made up for it in the constituencies, winning a total of 69, which added to the 63 list seats makes them comfortably the biggest group in the Rada. The leader of Right Sector got elected in his seat in Dnipropetrovsk. Tymoshenko's party did dreadfully, only just passing the 5% threshold for list seats and winning just two constituency seats.