Ukraine is awash in election fever ahead of this Sunday's local polls, which will include an important mayoral race in the capital, Kiev.

The election — only the second since the Moscow-leaning president was overthrown during the country's revolution in February 2014 — is an important one. Many view the polls as a referendum on the Western-leaning President Petro Poroshenko and his government, which rose to power from the ashes of the uprising.

But in post-Soviet Ukraine, change is hard. And new leadership has not stopped candidates and political parties from employing every dirty trick in the book to ensure they win.

From mudslinging to vote-buying to secretly backing a former foe to registering names similar to leading parties to confuse voters, nothing is off limits.

Sticking with tradition, cities, towns and highways have been blanketed in campaign ads that feature the stone-cold faces of little-known candidates from parties that seemed to appear out of thin air.

Residents In Kiev, Ukraine pass the campaign poster of a candidate running in Sunday's elections.

Fed up with the empty, confusing campaign ads, Denis Gritsfeldt, 29, a graphic artist and designer from Kiev, created a series of parody posters featuring Game of Thrones characters.

Gritsfeldt, a huge fan of the HBO show, first created the posters as a joke between friends. "But then friends of friends started to share them, and I understood that the point of elections worries others even more than me."

Gritsfeldt's album with the spoof campaign ads has been shared on Facebook more than 18,000 times. Hundreds of Twitter users have shared them, too.

With the posters, Gritsfeldt hopes he will encourage people to "start thinking."

"One should think carefully before making their choice, because the person behind the name on the voting-paper may be one more Joffrey or, on the contrary, Jon Snow."

Some of Gritsfeldt's posters are below.

Candidate: Arya Stark

Party: Association of Children for the Future Slogan: "Valar morghulis," which translates to "All men must die" from High Valyrian, an ancient language featured in Game of Thrones.

Candidate: Cersei Lannister

Slogan: The south is ours!

Candidate: Joffrey Baratheon

Party: Monarchist-Democratic Union Slogan: Get rid of waste, punish the guilty.

Candidate: Jon Snow

Party: Close-Knit Community of Seven Kingdoms Slogan: Contractual army!

Candidate: Khal Drogo

Party: Nomadic Community Party Slogan: The country needs a new stallion.

Candidate: Ned Stark

Party: The Block of the Like-Minded - Winter is Coming Slogan: Heating in every home.

Candidate: Petyr Baelish

Party: Social Community Little Finger Slogan: Tried and true.

Candidate: Sandor Clegane

Party: Principle. Energy. Strength. Slogan: Lustration without hesitation.

Candidate: White Walkers

Party: Common People Movement Slogan: 8,000 years of stability.

Candidate: Daenerys Targaryen

Slogan: Freedom. Equality. Brotherhood.

Candidate: Tyrion Lannister

Party: Big Business Political Group Slogan: Closed several brothels.

You can view more of Gritsfeldt's parody posters on Facebook.