Results of elections in Kharkiv: the commission admitted a fatal mistake of 8 thousand votes

In Kharkiv, the meeting of the territorial election commission ended with the announcement of the winner of the elections to mayor of the candidate from the party “Kernes Bloc – Successful Kharkiv!” Igor Terekhov. However, after that, the head of the TEC stated that an error had occurred when announcing the results.

This was reported by the portal “Public Kharkiv”.

What happened

According to journalists, TEC representatives admitted a mistake in the number of votes for the leader of the local branch of the National Corps political party Konstantin Nemichev.

At first, it was stated that he received more than 20 thousand votes, but later the TEC counted him only 12.2 thousand. Thus, the representative of the nationalist movement took not third place, but fourth.

How were the elections

• In December 2020, the mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, died, after which the duties of the mayor were temporarily transferred to the secretary of the Kharkiv City Council Igor Terekhov. New elections were held on October 31st.
• Exitpoles showed that 53.8% of voters voted for Terekhov, followed by Mikhail Dobkin, 24.5%. Alexander Skorik closes the top three with the result of 6.7% of the votes.
• The main opponent of Terekhov, the candidate for mayor of Kharkiv, Mikhail Dobkin, admitted defeat in the elections in the afternoon, but from now on he threatened to control the power.
• A little earlier, the OPORA Civil Network said that at nine polling stations in only one district of Kharkov – Novobavarsky – observers discovered falsification of the protocols of the results of the mayoral elections.
• Late in the evening of November 1, it was announced that the candidate from the “Kernes Bloc – Successful Kharkov!” Igor Terekhov received 50.66% of the votes and thus became the winner.