Employees during each governor's tenure
25 governors, ranked by how employees changed from their first day in office, next to Ukraine over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.
| # | Governor | Country | In office | Total | vs UA | Per year | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N Myroslav Biletskyi | Zakarpattia Oblast | 9 Sep 2024 – now | +8.3% Aug 2024 → Sep 2026 | +7.7 pts UA +0.7% | +3.9%/yr | |
| 2 | N Mykola Kalashnyk | Kyiv Oblast | 1 Jan 2025 – 16 Jul 2026 | +2.8% Dec 2024 → Jun 2026 | +2.0 pts UA +0.8% | +1.9%/yr | |
| 3 | N Viacheslav Nehoda | Ternopil Oblast | 24 Aug 2024 – 12 Jan 2026 | +2.2% Jul 2024 → Dec 2025 | +4.3 pts UA −2.1% | +1.5%/yr | |
| 4 | N Serhii Hamalii | Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 3 Dec 2020 – 16 Mar 2023 from Jan 2021 | +0.4% Jan 2021 → Feb 2023 | +16.5 pts UA −16.1% | +0.2%/yr | |
| 5 | N Oleksii Kharchenko | Luhansk Oblast | 17 Apr 2025 – now | 0.0% Mar 2025 → Sep 2026 | −0.9 pts UA +0.9% | 0.0%/yr | |
| 6 | N Ivan Rudnytskyi | Volyn Oblast | 8 Nov 2024 – 12 Jan 2026 | −0.3% Oct 2024 → Dec 2025 | +1.7 pts UA −2.0% | −0.2%/yr | |
| 7 | N Viktor Mykyta | Zakarpattia Oblast | 10 Dec 2021 – 9 Sep 2024 | −1.3% Nov 2021 → Aug 2024 | +21.5 pts UA −22.8% | −0.5%/yr | |
| 8 | N Dmytro Lunin (acting) | Poltava Oblast | 24 Dec 2021 – 10 Oct 2023 | −2.1% Nov 2021 → Sep 2023 | +16.5 pts UA −18.6% | −1.1%/yr | |
| 9 | N Ruslan Kravchenko | Kyiv Oblast | 10 Apr 2023 – 1 Jan 2025 | −2.8% Mar 2023 → Dec 2024 | +5.3 pts UA −8.1% | −1.6%/yr | |
| 10 | N Oleh Hryhorov | Sumy Oblast | 17 Apr 2025 – now | −5.5% Mar 2025 → Sep 2026 | −6.4 pts UA +0.9% | −3.7%/yr |
Showing 10 of 29 tenures.
Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Ukraine is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. thousand, firms with ten or more staff · Ukrstat survey of enterprises on labour statistics, average number of regular employees of firms with ten or more staff by region, from 2021 · oblast data · as of Sep 2026.