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This summary details the key findings from the latest International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) public opinion survey in Ukraine. The fieldwork of this survey was conducted between May 19 and June 1, 2019, following the second round of the 2019 presidential election. The survey interviewed 2,003 respondents through Ukraine, excluding the occupied areas of […]

On April 21, 2019, Ukrainian citizens headed to the polls to select their next president in a second-round election triggered after no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round on March 31. Volodymyr Zelenskyi, representing the Servant of the People Party and a relative newcomer to Ukrainian politics, achieved […]

Political inclusion of all citizens regardless of gender, race, disability, ethnicity, or sexuality is a cornerstone of representative governance. The principle of one-person one-vote is fundamental to genuine democracy. While there has been some progress in increasing political access for persons with disabilities around the world, much less progress has been made to remove barriers […]

March 31, 20:00 hrs. Ukrainians today went to the polls to cast their ballot in the election of the President of Ukraine. The 29,901 polling stations in the country have now closed. The last polling station abroad will close at 06:00 hrs Kyiv time in San Francisco on Monday, April 1. In the coming hours, election […]

From February 26 to March 6, 2019, IFES in cooperation with the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the joint IFES-CEC Training Center organized 106 regional trainings for more than 3,000 District Election Commission (DEC) members. The trainings were facilitated by trainers with extensive experience in electoral issues who underwent a five-day training of trainers (TOT) […]