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The article analysed distinctions of electoral behaviour among different regions of Ukraine. The election results in the period 1991 – 2012 made it possible to conclude that the fundamental importance of regional factors is present in the system of electoral preferences of citizens. The main reasons and factors of ideological differences among the regions are presented. Main attention is paid on the clarifying the regional polarity of political culture and electoral behaviour of citizens according to an axis “east – west”.