Veronica Khokhlova, probably the best blogger covering Ukraine today, has an after-action review of the Ternopil elections. The final results are just as bleak for Yulia Tymoshenko as the initial count appeared to be:

“Tyahnybok’s Svoboda won the election (34.69%, 153,038 votes, 50 seats out of 120), presidential chief of staff Victor Baloha’s United Center Party came in second (14.2%, 63,143 votes, 20 seats), followed by Yanukovych’s Party of Regions (9.8%, 41,303 votes, 14 seats) - and BYuT [Tymoshenko's party] finished fourth (8.12%, 36,056 votes, 12 seats).”

“In the previous Ternopil Regional Council election (UKR), held in March 2006, BYuT won 34.49% of the votes, taking 54 seats, pro-presidential People’s Union “Our Ukraine” had 31.27% of the votes and 48 seats, while neither the Party of Regions, nor Svoboda were represented in the Ternopil regional council then.”

So Tymoshenko came in fourth in what was recently a BYuT stronghold. Granted, many of Tymoshenko’s people boycotted the election, but this still doesn’t bode well for her 2010 presidential aspirations.