2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Ukraine
← 1998 31 March 2002 2006 →
All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout69.27% (Decrease 1.1 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Our Ukraine Bloc Viktor Yushchenko 23.57% 112 +50
KPU Petro Symonenko 19.99% 65 -57
For United Ukraine! Volodymyr Lytvyn 11.78% 121 +85
Tymoshenko Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko 7.26% 22 New
SPU Oleksandr Moroz 6.87% 22 +5
SDPU(o) Viktor Medvedchuk 6.28% 27 +10
Unity (Ukraine) Oleksandr Omelchenko 1.09% 4 New
DPU–DS Volodymyr Horbulin 0.88% 5 +3
Volodymyr Bezkorovainy 0.11% 1 New
UNA Mykola Karpyuk 0.05% 1 +1
PNERU Pavlo Matviyenko – 1 New
Independents – – 66 -39
– – 3 -2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results of the 2002 parliamentary election by region
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada after
Ivan Plyushch Ivan Plyushch
NDP		 Volodymyr Lytvyn
For United Ukraine!		Volodymyr Lytvyn
Single constituency winners

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002.[1] The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats.[2]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted at the time that there were physical assaults and harassment of candidates and campaign workers associated with opposition political parties prior to the March election.[3] The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc complained of campaign related violations including "an informal 'media blackout,' [and] negatively slanted coverage".[3]

Electoral system[]

In this election, parallel voting was used. Half of the deputies to Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies.[4] In order to gain any (proportional) seats in Verkhovna Rada a party needed to receive at least 4% of the popular vote.[5]

Public opinion polls[]

Polls Our Ukraine Communists ZaEdU[6] SDPU (o)[7] BYuT[8] Socialists Vitrenko[9] Greens Zh/M[10] KOP[11] Apple
All-Ukrainian Social Service (3/31/2002)[12] 22% 20% 14% 8% 6% 5% 3.5%
Razumkov Centre (3/29/2002)[13] 26-28% 18-19% 7-8% 9-10% 7-8% 3.5-4.5% 4-5% 4.5-5.5% 4-5% 2.5-3.5% 2.5-3%
Politic's Institute (3/29/2002)[13] 29-32% 19-21% 6-8% 7-9% 4-5% 4-5% 5-6% 4-5%
Ukrainian Institute of Social Research and
Center "Social Monitoring" (3/27/2002)[14] 		23-25% 17-19% 11-13% 10-12% 5.5-7% 3.5-4.5% 3-4% 4-5.5% 4-5.5% 2.5-4% 2.5-3.5%
Center SOCIS (3/27/2002)[14] 31-33% 17-19% 5-6% 7-8% 3-4% 2-3% 2-3% 5-6% 4-5%

Incidents[]

On 29 March 2002 the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko won a case on defamation against the Chairman of the Tax Administration of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. The Shevchenkivsky District Court of the Kyiv city prohibited the Tax Administration of Ukraine to spread lies against the opposition electoral bloc.[15]

Late at night on 29 March 2002 vice-governor of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Mykola Shkriblyak was mortally wounded. Shkriblyak was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) and he was a parliamentary candidate in the 90th electoral district. He died later in a local hospital.[16]

Results[]

← 1998 Summary of the 31 March 2002 Verkhovna Rada election results 2006 →
Parties and coalitions Nationwide constituency Const.
seats 		Total seats
Votes % ±pp Seats Seats +/-
Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine" Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
Liberal Party of Ukraine
Youth Party of Ukraine
People's Movement of Ukraine
Reforms and Order Party [a]
Solidarity
Christian Democratic Union
Forward, Ukraine!
Republican Christian Party
Ukrainian People's Party 		6,108,088 23.57 Increase 4.15[b] 70 42
112 / 450
 Increase 50
Communist Party of Ukraine 5,178,074 19.99 Decrease 4.66 59 6
65 / 450
 Decrease 57
For United Ukraine! Agrarian Party of Ukraine
People's Democratic Party
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
Party of Regions
Labour Ukraine 		3,051,056 11.78 Increase 2.18[c] 35 86
121 / 450
 Increase 85
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Fatherland
Ukrainian Republican Party
Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor"
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party 		1,882,087 7.26 New 22 —
22 / 450
 New
Socialist Party of Ukraine 1,780,642 6.87 —[d] 20 2
22 / 450
 Increase 5
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) 1,626,721 6.28 Increase 2.27 19 8
27 / 450
 Increase 10
Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
Party of Educators of Ukraine 		836,198 3.23 Decrease 0.82[e] — — — Decrease 17
Women for the Future 547,916 2.11 New — — — New
Team of Winter Generation Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine
Viche
Party of Private Property
Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party 		525,025 2.03 Increase 0.99[f] — — — Decrease 1
Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) 362,712 1.40 New — — — New
Party of Greens of Ukraine 338,252 1.31 Decrease 4.13 — — — Decrease 19
Apple 299,764 1.16 New — — — New
Unity Unity
Social Democratic Union
Young Ukraine
Ukrainian Party of Justice 		282,491 1.09 New — 4
4 / 450
 New
Democratic Party of Ukraine — Democratic Union Democratic Party of Ukraine
Democratic Union 		227,393 0.88 Decrease 0.35[g] — 5
5 / 450
 Increase 3
New Generation of Ukraine 201,157 0.78 New — — — New
Russian Bloc For One Rus
Rus
Union 		190,839 0.74 Increase 0.04[h] — — — Decrease 1
ZUBR[i] (For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) For Human Rights
Light from the East 		112,259 0.43 New — — — New
Communist Party of Workers and Peasants 106,904 0.41 New — — — New
Peasant Party of Ukraine 98,428 0.38 —[j] — — — Decrease 12
Rehabilitation of the People of Ukraine Party 91,098 0.35 New — — — New
All-Ukrainian Party of Workers 88,842 0.34 Decrease 0.45 — — — Decrease 1
All-Ukrainian Association of Christians 75,174 0.29 New — — — New
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine 68,664 0.27 Decrease 0.05 — — — Steady 0
Bloc "Popular Movement of Ukraine" People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity
Center 		41,730 0.16 New — — — New
Bloc "Against all" Patriotic Party of Ukraine
Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine 		29,665 0.11 New — — — New
Ukrainian Marine Party 29,025 0.11 New — 1
1 / 450
 New
Popular Party of Investors and Social Protection 27,273 0.11 New — — — New
All-Ukrainian Party "New Force" 26,299 0.10 New — — — New
Christian Movement 23,591 0.09 New — — — New
Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" 21,957 0.08 New — — — New
Ukrainian National Assembly 11,839 0.05 Decrease 0.34 — 1
1 / 450
 Increase 1
Bloc of Ukrainian Party and New World Ukrainian Party
All-Ukrainian Party of Interethnic Understanding "New World" 		11,048 0.04 New — — — New
Liberal Ukraine 8,535 0.03 New — — — New
Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine —[k] — — — 1
1 / 450
 Increase 1
Independents — — — — 66
66 / 450
 Decrease 39
Against all 635,199 2.45 Decrease 2.81
Invalid ballot papers 963,462 3.72 Increase 0.63
Vacant (constituencies with no result) 3 3
Total 25,909,407 100 225 225 450
Registered voters/turnout 37,403,661 69.27 Decrease 1.51
Source: Central Electoral Commission Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Notes:
  1. ^ At the moment of the election the party temporally had name "Our Ukraine". Do not confuse with created in 2005 party Our Ukraine
  2. ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Movement of Ukraine, Reforms and Order Party, "National Front" Alliance (a part of which Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists was),
    "Together" alliance (a part of which Liberal Party of Ukraine was), Forward, Ukraine! and Republican Christian Party in the previous election
  3. ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Democratic Party, Agrarian Party of Ukraine and Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine in the previous election
  4. ^ At the previous election ran as a part of Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance
  5. ^ Result is compared to the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
  6. ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of Social Liberal Association and "European Choice of Ukraine" alliances in the previous election
  7. ^ Result is compared to the Bloc of Democratic Parties — NEP
  8. ^ Result is compared to the Union party
  9. ^ An abbreviation that is the same as Ukrainian word for Wisent or Belarusian bison
  10. ^ In the previous election the party ran in the Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance
  11. ^ Did not participate in party voting, but only in single-member constituencies

The final election results differed greatly from the final opinion poll.[17] The 2002 parliamentary elections were the first that substantially reduced fragmentation of the Verkhovna Rada and laid the groundwork for consolidation of political views in the parliament.

Yushchenko's Our Ukraine gathered most of its support from western and central regions of Ukraine, including the city of Kyiv. The Communist Party received most of its votes from eastern and southern regions, as well as from Crimea. For United Ukraine block, which included Victor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, got most of its votes from eastern regions of Ukraine. Donetsk Oblast was the stronghold of the block, where it received more than twice the number of votes (36.83%) compared to the next highest supporting region: Sumy Oblast with 17.05% of the region's voters. Yulia Tymoshenko's block's support came predominantly from western regions, while the Socialists were most supported in the central regions. While the Tymoshenko block received more of the national vote compared to the Socialist Party, it did not gain a plurality in any of the regions, while the Socialist Party managed to secure plurality of votes in Poltava Oblast with 22.05%.

Electoral districts[]

The following table demonstrates all winners of the 225 electoral districts.[18]

Several lawmakers elected into the new parliament have family ties with other lawmakers or other family members in the executive branch of Ukrainian politics.[19]

Faction changes after 2002 election[]

After the election, several MPs left their parties to join another others.[20]

Faction changes after the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002 (main parties and alliances)
Parties and alliances Number of seats on 15 May 2002 Number of seats on 19 October 2002 Number of seats on 2 January 2003 Number of seats on 16 September 2005 Green Arrow Up.svg  Red Arrow Down.svg
Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine 119 110 102 45 Red Arrow Down.svg 74 seats
Communist Party of Ukraine 64 61 60 56 Red Arrow Down.svg 8 seats
For United Ukraine 175 Disbanded Disbanded Disbanded Red Arrow Down.svg 175 seats
Electoral Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko 23 20 18 40 Green Arrow Up.svg 17 seats
Socialist Party of Ukraine 22 21 20 26 Green Arrow Up.svg 4 seats
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine 31 38 40 20 Red Arrow Down.svg 11 seats
Source: Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-09545-7 & Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West by and Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 303911607X & Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification by , National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, October 2002

By October 2002 the For United Ukraine faction had broken down in 8 new parliamentary factions.[21]

References[]

  1. ^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1991
  3. ^ a b Ukraine:Treatment of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (SDPU); relationship with the National Salvation Forum (FNB); treatment of FNB members, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada via UNHCR (14 August 2003)
  4. ^ Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften) by , Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN 90-5629-631-0 (page 93)
  5. ^ Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg (Editor), Lutz Hoffmann, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3790811890/ISBN 978-3790811896 (page 184)
  6. ^ For One Ukraine
  7. ^ Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
  8. ^ Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko
  9. ^ Bloc of Nataliya Vitrenko
  10. ^ Women for Future
  11. ^ Team of Winter Generation
  12. ^ (in Ukrainian) "За ЄдУ" отримує свої 14%. У відповідному exit-poll (ZaEdU is receiving its 14%. In the respective exit-poll). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 31, 2002
  13. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Вибори-2002: остаточний прогноз (Elections-2002: the final forecast). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002
  14. ^ a b Рейтинги переможців. Без табу (Ratings of victors. No taboo). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 27, 2002
  15. ^ Тимошенко виграла суд у Азарова (Tymoshenko won case against Azarov). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002
  16. ^ Вбито кандидата в депутати від СДПУ(О) (A parliamentary candidate from SDPU (u) was killed). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 30, 2002
  17. ^ Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)
  18. ^ (in Ukrainian) Winners, Ukrainian Weekly. April 14, 2002. page 3.
  19. ^ Family ties that bind parliament, Kyiv Post (15 November 2012)
  20. ^ Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-09545-7
  21. ^ Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification by , National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, October 2002

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