title: Sumy Oblast Council
text: # Sumy Oblast Council
  
  The Sumy Oblast Council (Ukrainian: Сумська обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Sumy Oblast (province) located in central Ukraine.
  
  Council members are elected for five year terms. In order to gain representation in the council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote.
  
  ## Recent elections
  
  ### 2020
  
  Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections
  
  * 16 Servant of the People
  * 14 Opposition Platform — For Life
  * 10 Fatherland
  * 9 European Solidarity
  * 8 Our Land
  * 7 For the Future
  
  Election date was 25 October 2020
  
  ### 2015
  
  Distribution of seats after the 2015 Ukrainian local elections
  
  * 14 Solidarity
  * 14 Fatherland
  * 8 Revival
  * 7 Radical Party
  * 6 People's Will
  * 5 UKROP
  * 5 Opposition Bloc
  * 5 Svoboda
  
  Election date was 25 October 2015
  
  ## Chairmen
  
  ### Regional executive committee
  
  * Iosif Gorlov (1939–1941, 1943–1944)
  * Alexander Abramov (1944–1948)
  * Vasily Shadrin (1948–1950)
  * Ivan Martynenko (1950–1953)
  * Andrei Kondratenko (1953–1959)
  * Trofim Poplevkin (1959–1962)
  * Boris Voltovsky (1962–1963)
  * Ivan Eremenko (1963–1964; agrarian)
  * Mikhail Lushpa (1963–1964; industrial)
  * Andrey Naumenko (1964–1973)
  * Dmitry Kozenyashev (1973–1982)
  * Vladimir Shevchenko (1982–1988)
  * Anatoly Bondarenko (1988–1991)
  * Volodymyr Shevchenko (1991)
  
  ### Regional council
  
  * Volodymyr Shevchenko (1990–1991)
  * Anatoliy Bondarenko (1991–1994)
  * Anatoliy Epifanov (1994–1999)
  * Mark Berfman (1999–2006)
  * Vyacheslav Shaposhnyk (2006–2009)
  * Volodymyr Tokar (2009–2010)
  * Hennadiy Mykhailenko (2010–2014)
  * Mykola Klochko (2014)
  * Vera Lavryk (acting, 2014–2015)
  * Semen Salatenko (2015–2016)
  * Volodymyr Tokar (2016–2020)
  * Viktor Fedorchenko (since 2020)
  