Dnipropetrovsk regional council saw 75 per cent of its seats changed after the elections. As Pavlo Shandyba, the head of the regional election committee stated, at present the majority of the council consists of the “regional centrist leadership.” According to the election results, among the deputies elected are the regional governor, Mykola Shvets and his four deputies Halyna Bulavka, Volodymyr Meleshchyk, Petro Kravchyk, and Volodymyr Zalunin. In Pokroskiy distict, Volodymyr Derkach, an ex-governor’s deputy and now Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania, got the mandate of the regional deputy council. Among others elected are also Serhiy Cheh, director of Dniproblenergo; Olexiy Lisohorskiy, the head of the regional police road inspection department; Olexander Momot, the director of Prydniprovksa Railway; and, Nadiya Dyeyeva, the head of the regional state administration financial department. For A United Ukraine’s members and supporters received 70 mandates - a majority in the regional council, though initially there were 26 of such officially nominated bloc candidates and 53 promoted by the communists. In the end, the communists won only six. There were 36 deputies of the last convocation up for re-election, but only seven succeeded.
In the region, 50 per cent of all the regional mayors have been replaced as a result of the elections. Eight mayors were reelected and 13 will sit for the first time. In Dnipropetrovsk itself, Ivan Kulinichenko was reelected as mayor.According to a statement by Lidiya Topyuk, the head of the city election committee, Kulinichenko was supported by For A United Ukraine and was re-elected with 53.6 per cent of the vote. Another candidate nominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine, Victor Borshchevsky, was supported by 25 per cent of local citizens. As journalists have reported, he was consistently critical of the regional leadership. Ivan Shulyk, nominated for the mayor by Our Ukraine, gained only 6.4 per cent of the vote. Mr.Shulyk, who chairs the regional UPM (Ukrainian People’s Movement) and holds the post of chief artist at a local theatre, suggested in his election program that he would unblock the city’s central transport system by constructing a cable railway in Dnipropetrovsk . Two final contenders, Victor Berizka - the head of the Justice regional organization, and the economist Olena Gostyeva enjoyed approximately the same miniscule support.

The Court has confirmed the decision by the city’s election committee regarding the invalidity of the city’s mayoral elections. There was also another decision to cancel the registration of the candidate Anatoliy Voloshyn. Therefore the elections for mayor will take place on the 16 of June 2002. The Court’s decision was based on complaints by 287 Cherkassy citizens, who claimed serious violations of the election procedure. Particularly, the territorial election commission set out gross breaches of election law by Anatoliy Voloshyn, the executive director of Yuriya Diary Enterprise and a city mayoral candidate. Voloshyn said he was lawfully elected mayor, has occupied the mayor’s office since 2 April 2002 and has refused to leave the premises since. He has stated that the committee’s decision was not unexpected for him, but insists that he received 2,000 more votes than the acting mayor, Volodymyr Oliynyk.
Many local officials made it to the regional council. They include the governor V. Lukyanets, the regional council head H. Kapralov, and nine heads of district administrations - all-level officials, big enterprises directors and chairmen of joint-stock companies.

Local policemen have won 99 of the local council mandates. Six of them, including Vitaliy Maksymov, the head of the regional police department, won a regional deputy’s mandates. The total is 32 in the districts, 14 in the towns, and 45 in the villages. Another two were elected as village chiefs. According to the Ternopil police public relations service, this was the most active election activity for its staff since Ukraine became independent. In all previous convocations in the regional councils, there was not one policeman.

The territorial election committee has declared invalid the regional council elections in Khotyn, Zastavna, and Sokyrnyany districts on the grounds of mass electoral fraud. There are also two lawsuits that have been brought by candidates on the similar claims. Prior to this, Mykola Podilchuk, the head of Chernivtsi regional election committee, reported on the election protocol exchange and the additional registration of 1,000 votes in Khotyn district in favor of four parties with representatives campaigning for the regional state administration. According to Podilchuk, the data about the fraud was traced to many polling stations in Khotyn, Zastavna, Sokyrnyany and Vyzhnytsya districts and thus were able to sway the final election results. Aside from this, according to the provisional data obtained by the commission, in some polling stations the ballot papers were not counted at all and in 90 per cent of some cases, the official monitors representing political blocs and parties were rejected permission to witness the counting procedure. The governor, Teofil Bauer, prior to the official results, announced that more than half of the regional deputies (45 of 104) would represent For A United Ukraine, as led by him and his first deputy, Mykola Shevchuk. Mr.Bauer said there were also five representatives from Our Ukraine and four social democrats (united) making up the council. At the same time, Borys Bahlei - the deputy head of the regional Our Ukraine headquarters - has claimed that their block lost at least 40 per cent of all mandates due to the mass election results falsifications.

Lyubomyr Bunyak, a 58-year-old candidate of technical science and the deputy director of UkrTransOil is the new mayor of Lviv. Bunyak, received 183,103 votes while his rival, former mayor Vasyl Kuybida received just 108,560. A. Sadoviy, the director of the Lviv Development Institute and Yuriy Karvatskiy, the president of Karpat Construction Co., followed behind the leading candidates. Bunyak has won a convincing victory by beating Kuybida, who was receiving support from Viktor Yushchenko`s Our Ukraine bloc. The new mayor began his duties on the 11 April and reiterated his declaration that he would resign if, in two years, the problem of the round the clock water shortage in the city has not been solved.

The election results from the autonomous republic, as reported by the Crimean media, noted the election of 26 representatives of The Crimean Hrach bloc and 39 representatives of The Kunitsyn Team, the group representing the former Crimean prime minister and the Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Kunitsyn. Aside from this, there will now be 8 Crimean Tatars in the parliament of the autonomous republic. They include: a communist; Lentun Bezaziyev, the first vice-premier of Crimea’s government; Edip Gafarov, the chairman of the Republican Committee on National Minorities and Deported Citizens Affairs; and Aziz Abdulayev, the first deputy of the Crimean Industry Minister. Of the 100 deputies of the Crimean parliament, there are 5 representatives of The Russian Bloc.
The conclusive victory of Leonid Hrach, the speaker of the Crimean Autonomous Republic (CAR) is yet to be officially confirmed. According to a statement by Ivan Polyakov, the head of the Republican election committee, the election commission of constituency #25 (Simferopol) - where 70 per cent of all voters supported Mr.Hrach - did not follow the election result protocols. Polyakov was charged with “sabotage” by Olexander Hutsalenko, the head of the district election committee who “is holding documents back and therefore hinders the final election results.” The Supreme Court of Ukraine has set a hearing on 19 April based on Hrach’s appeal, as his candidate’s registration was cancelled. As stated earlier, on 25 March the district Simferopol Court cancelled the decision of #25 election committee to register Hrach as a candidate to the parliament of CAR. The Supreme Court of Ukraine did not hold a hearing on Hrach’s case by the election date, as the necessary materials were not at its disposal (a court of first instance is to blame). However, the #25 election committee did not strike Hrach’s name off the ballot papers and he won the election anyway.