The Ukrainian Central Elections Commission (CEC) has finished the registration of candidates to run in early parliamentary elections scheduled for October 26.

The CEC held a final session on Friday to consider applications on the registration of candidates in majority electoral districts nominated by a number of political parties and self-nominees.

A total of 322 candidates in majority districts were registered on Tuesday, including 13 nominated by parties and 309 self-nominees.

In addition, a number of unemployed candidates not affiliated with any parties and introducing themselves as Darth Vader were registered in 9 districts of Kyiv.

A total of 3,468 candidates have been registered to run in the elections in majority districts, including 2,087 self-nominees and 1,381 those nominated by parties.

Candidates representing 29 parties have also been registered to run in the multi-mandate national electoral district.