Yuriy Odarchenko

Yuriy Vitaliyovych Odarchenko (born 5 April 1960

Biography In the 2006 and 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Odarchenko was elected to parliament as a candidate of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was reelected to parliament for Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union party. The crowd was not amused, and his microphone was snatched and thrown away. According to local news website Khersonskie Vesti, supporters of Ukraine’s Communist Party led the effort to interrupt the speech. Although, Governor Odarchenko was comparing Russia and Fascist Germany, implying that both foreign powers swept through Ukraine, the communists attempts to represent his speech as "pro-Hitler".|group=nb

During the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Odarchenko lost in constituency 182 to Oleksandr Spivakovskyy with a minimal difference.

On 27 August 2014 he resigned his position as governor due to disagreements with the new President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

During 17 July 2016 constituency mid-term elections Odarchenko was elected back into the Ukrainian parliament for Batkivshchyna (in constituency 183).

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Odarchenko failed to get elected back into the Ukrainian parliament for Batkivshchyna after losing in constituency 182 finishing fourth with 7.32% of the votes.