Candidate Anton Kisse won the by-election to the Verkhovna Rada in district 136 in Odesa. \n \nThis was announced at 10 a.m. on Monday by the head of the district election commission, Oleksandr Kupriianov, while handing the protocol with the election results to the winner. \n \nAccording to the vote count, 10,530 voters voted for Kisse. \n \nSecond place went to Volodymyr Rondin - 7,838 votes. Mykhailo Brodskyi, who is supported by "Our Ukraine," received 4,843 votes. \n \nIn total, according to the DEC, 34,681 voters took part in the elections, 2,024 of whom did not support any candidate. 2,179 ballots were declared invalid. \n \nAs is known, on Sunday elections of a people's deputy were held in Odesa to replace the departed Serhii Kivalov, who became the head of the Central Election Commission. \n \nThere was a low voter turnout in the elections - about 22% - due to heavy rain that occurred in Odesa on that day. \n\nIn total, district 136 in Odesa has 77 precincts, and about 145 thousand voters live there. \n\nCurrently, Anton Kisse works as deputy governor of Odesa region, and is also an adviser to the first vice premier. \n\nAfter receiving the protocol with the election results, in a comment to "Ukrainska Pravda," Kisse noted that he believed in his victory. He called the election results "convincing," noting that the DEC even tried to "take away 300 votes from him." \n\nHe rejected accusations that mass voting by students was organized in his support at several precincts where they had not previously been on the voter list, and also denied the opinion widespread among Odesa residents that he would represent the interests of the family of CEC head Kivalov. \n\nKisse noted that he had not yet decided which faction or group he would join in parliament, but noted that he "very much likes" NBU head Serhii Tihipko and would even support him in a presidential election. \n \n