1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	70.78% ( 5.03 pp)
Party Leader % Seats ± KPU Petro Symonenko 24.65% 122 +36 Rukh Vyacheslav Chornovil 9.40% 46 +26 SPU–SelPU Oleksandr Moroz 3.09% 35 +2 Party of Greens Vitaliy Kononov 5.44% 19 New NDP Anatoliy Matviyenko 5.01% 27 New Hromada Pavlo Lazarenko 4.68% 23 New PSPU Nataliya Vitrenko 4.05% 17 New SDPU(o) Leonid Kravchuk 4.01% 17 +16 APU Kateryna Vashchuk 3.68% 7 New PRP Serhiy Sobolyev 3.13% 4 New Labour Ukraine Ivan Herasymov 3.06% 1 -1 National Front Levko Lukyanenko 2.72% 7 -8 LPU–PP Volodymyr Shcherban 1.89% 2 -2 CDU–UCDP Oleksandr Bazylyuk 1.74% 2 New CDPU Vitaly Zhuravsky 1.30% 2 +1 DPU–PEV Volodymyr Yavorivsky 1.23% 2 0 KDP–MBR Volodymyr Hrynyov 0.91% 1 New PRVU Volodymyr Rybak 0.91% 2 New Oleksandr Stoyan 0.79% 1 New Soyuz Lev Myrymsʹkyy 0.70% 1 New SNPU–DSU Yaroslav Andrushkiv 0.16% 1 New Independents – – 105 -63 Vacant seats – – 5 -107 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the 1994 parliamentary election by region
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada after Oleksandr Moroz SPU–SelPU Oleksandr Tkachenko KPU

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Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998.^[1] The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 seats.^[2]

After the election votes in five electoral districts had too many irregularities to declare a winner and the parliament was five members short of 450.

Electoral system[]

In comparison to the first parliamentary election, this time half of 450 parliament seats were filled by single-seat majority winners in 225 electoral regions (constituencies), and the other half were split among political parties and blocks^[3] that received at least 4% of the popular vote.^[4]

Results[]

The Communist Party of Ukraine was victorious in 18 regions including the city of Kyiv, while in three other regions the party finished in second place. The People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) won in five regions, all of them located in Western Ukraine and was a strong runner-up in three others, mostly in the west and Kyiv. The electoral block of Socialists and Peasants was able to secure a victory in only two regions, however it did finish strong in seven other regions across central Ukraine. The new and rising party of Hromada won the Dnipropetrovsk Region, while the Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine managed to secure the Zakarpattia Region.

Notable and strong runners up were the Party of Greens, the People's Democratic Party, the Progressive Socialist Party, the People's Party, Working Ukraine, the National Front and Our Ukraine.

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Summary of the 29 March 1998 Verkhovna Rada election results

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Parties and coalitions			Nationwide constituency			Const. seats	Total seats
			Votes	%	Seats		Seats	+/-
	Communist Party of Ukraine		6,550,353	24.65	84	38	122 / 450
	People's Movement of Ukraine		2,498,262	9.40	32	14	46 / 450
	Socialist Party – Peasant Party	Socialist Party of Ukraine Peasant Party of Ukraine	2,273,788	8.56	29	6	35 / 450
	Party of Greens of Ukraine		1,444,264	5.44	19	—	19 / 450
	People's Democratic Party		1,331,460	5.01	17	10	27 / 450
	Hromada		1,242,235	4.68	16	7	23 / 450
	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine		1,075,118	4.05	14	3	17 / 450
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)		1,066,113	4.01	14	3	17 / 450
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine		978,330	3.68	—	7	7 / 450
	Reforms and Order Party		832,574	3.13	—	4	4 / 450
	Laborious Ukraine	Civil Congress of Ukraine Ukrainian Party of Justice	813,326	3.06	—	1	1 / 450
	National Front	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party Ukrainian Republican Party	721,966	2.72	—	7	7 / 450
	Together	Liberal Party of Ukraine Party of Labor	502,969	1.89	—	2	2 / 450
	Forward Ukraine!	Christian Democratic Union Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party	461,924	1.74	—	3	3 / 450
	Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine		344,826	1.30	—	2	2 / 450
	Bloc of Democratic Parties — NEP	Democratic Party of Ukraine Party of Economic Revival	326,489	1.23	—	2	2 / 450
	Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine		250,476	0.94	—	—	—
	SLON — Social Liberal Association	Viche Inter-regional Bloc of Reforms	241,367	0.91	—	1	1 / 450
	Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine		241,262	0.91	—	2	2 / 450
	All-Ukrainian Party of Workers		210,622	0.79	—	1	1 / 450
	Union		186,249	0.70	—	1	1 / 450
	All-Ukrainian Party of Women's Initiatives		154,650	0.58	—	—	—
	Republican Christian Party		143,496	0.54	—	—	—
	Ukrainian National Assembly		105,977	0.39	—	—	—
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine		85,045	0.32	—	—	—
	Motherland Defenders Party		81,808	0.31	—	—	—
	Party of Spiritual, Economic and Social Progress		53,147	0.20	—	—	—
	Party of Muslims of Ukraine		52,613	0.20	—	—	—
	Less Words	Social-National Party of Ukraine State Independence of Ukraine	45,155	0.16	—	1	1 / 450
	European Choice of Ukraine	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	37,118	0.13	—	—	—
	Independents		—	—	—	105	105 / 450
Against all			1,396,592	5.26
Invalid ballot papers			821,699	3.09
Vacant (constituencies with no result)						5	5
Total			26,571,273	100	225	225	450
Registered voters/turnout			37,540,092	70.78
Source: Central Electoral Commission
Notes:

By regions (single constituency)[]

^[5]

Crimea (10/10)

• No party affiliation: Serhiy Ivanov, Anatoliy Rakhansky, Valeriy Horbatov, Refat Chubarov, Anatoliy Franchuk
• Communist Party of Ukraine: Yevhen Leshan, Viktor Myronenko
• Soyuz: Lev Myrymsky
• People's Democratic Party of Ukraine: Ihor Franchuk, Valeriy Khoroshkovsky

Vinnytsia Region (8/8)

• No party affiliation: Petro Poroshenko (No.12), , Oleksandr Shpak, Yevhen Smirnov, Oleksandr Stoyan
• People's Democratic Party of Ukraine: Ihor Kvyatkovsky, Anatoliy Matviyenko
• Communist Party of Ukraine: Mykola Pasyeka

Volyn Region (4/5)

• National Front (Republican): Valeriy Dibrova
• Agrarian: Kateryna Vashchuk
• No party affiliation: Mykola Martynenko
• Democratic Party of Ukraine: Oleksandr Svyryda
• People's Democratic Party of Ukraine: Serhiy Shevchuk

Dnipropetrovsk Region (16/17)

• Hromada 6 (1-Independent)
• No party affiliation 5
• Communist 3
• Interregional bloc 1
• Agrarian 1

Donetsk Region (21/23)

• No party affiliation 12
• Communist 7
• Party of Regions 2

Zhytomyr Region (5/6)

• No party affiliation 2
• People-Democratic 1
• Communist 1
• Christian-Democratic 1

Zakarpattia Region (5/5)

• Social-Democratic (u) 3
• No party affiliation 2

Zaporizhia Region (7/9)

• No party affiliation 3
• Communist 3 (1-Independent)
• Agrarian 1

Ivano-Frankivsk Region (6/6)

• No party affiliation 2
• National Front 2 (all CUN)
• Labor and Liberal together 1 (Independent)
• Christian people 1

Kirovohrad Region (3/5)

• No party affiliation 3

Luhansk Region (12/12)

• Communist 8
• No party affiliation 4

Lviv Region (10/12)

• People's Movement 2
• Reforms and Order 2
• National Front 2 (all Independent)
• Fewer words 1
• No party affiliation 1
• Christian-Democratic 1
• Agrarian 1

Mykolaiv Region (3/6)

• No party affiliation 2
• Reforms and Order 1

Odessa Region (10/11)

• No party affiliation 6
• Communist 2
• Agrarian 1 (Independent)
• Social and Peasant 1

Kyiv Region (7/8)

• No party affiliation 4
• Social and Peasant 1 (Socialist)
• Agrarian 1
• People's Movement 1

Poltava Region (8/8)

• Communist 3
• No party affiliation 2
• People's Movement 1
• People-Democratic 1 (Independent)
• Forward 1 (Independent)

Rivne Region (5/5)

• People's Movement 3
• No party affiliation 2

Sumy Region (6/6)

• No party affiliation 2
• Progressive Socialist 2
• Communist 1
• Justice 1

Ternopil Region (4/5)

• People's Movement 2
• No party affiliation 1
• National Front 1 (CUN)

Kharkiv Region (12/14)

• No party affiliation 6
• Communist 2
• Agrarian 1
• Social and Peasant 1 (Independent)
• Progressive Socialist 1 (Independent)
• People-Democratic 1

Kherson Region (6/6)

• No party affiliation 2
• Hromada 1
• Communist 1
• Christian-Democratic 1
• Social and Peasant 1 (Socialist)

Khmelnytsky Region (7/7)

• No party affiliation 4
• Republican 1
• Socialist 1
• Communist 1

Cherkasy Region (7/7)

• No party affiliation 3
• Communist 2
• Social and Peasant 1 (Peasant)
• People-Democratic 1

Chernivtsi Region (4/4)

• No party affiliation 3
• People's Movement 1

Chernihiv Region (5/6)

• No party affiliation 4
• People-Democratic 1

Kyiv (11/12)

• No party affiliation 8
• Democratic Parties 1 (Independent)
• People's Movement 1
• Reforms and Order 1

Sevastopol (2/2)

• No party affiliation 1
• Communist 1

Party affiliation changes after 1998 election[]

The size of the factions created in parliament after the election fluctuated.^[6] By January 2000, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine and Hromada had not had any deputies; while Peasant Party of Ukraine had deputies only in 1999.^[6] All these factions where disbanded due to the lack of members.^[7]

Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (later to become the biggest party of Ukraine as Party of Regions^[8]) grew massively in parliament (after in March 2001 it united with four parties) from 2 deputies elected in this election to a faction of 24 people in July 2002 (one deputy left the faction later).^[6][9][10] Later to become second biggest party of Ukraine,^[8] Batkivshchyna, started its existence as a faction when in the spring of 1999 members of Hromada left their party to join other parliament factions, among them Yulia Tymoshenko who set up the parliamentary faction "Batkivshchyna" in March 1999.^[11][12][13]

People's Movement of Ukraine split into 2 different factions in the spring of 1999 (the largest membership of the breakaway faction led by Hennadiy Udovenko was 19 and ended with 14, the "other" faction ended with 23; meaning that 10 elected People's Movement of Ukraine deputies did not represent any segment of the party anymore by June 2002).^[6][7]

Other mayor "non-elected" factions/parties to emerge in parliament after the election were: Solidarity^[14] (27 to 20 members^[6]) and Labour Ukraine^[15] (38 members in June 2002^[6]); by June 2002 the parliament had 8 more factions then its original 8 in May 1998.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• Central Election Commission of Ukraine