The Democratic Party of Ukraine ( uk, Демократична партія України; ''Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayni'') is a
political party
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in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
registered in 1991. Until 2006 it had a parliamentary representation, but after associating itself with the
People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to:
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, the Democratic Party disappeared from political arena.
The party did not participate in either the
2012
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The Democratic Party of Ukraine is one of the oldest political institutions of Ukraine. The Democratic Party was founded in 1990 by a group of Ukrainian dissidents.
In the 1994 parliamentary election, the party won 2 seats. In the 1998 elections, the party was part of the Electoral bloc NEP with the
Party of Economic Revival Party of Economic Revival ( uk, Партія економічного відродження) was a political party in Ukraine set up by former communists in Crimea in November 1992 as Party of Economic Revival of Crimea. It was suspected of having ...
constituency
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Central Election Commission of Ukraine
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...
In a union with the Democratic Union the party gained 4 constituency seats during the
2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats ...
.
In the 2006 elections, the party took part in the alliance
Block of People's Democratic Parties Block of People's Democratic Parties "We Know HOW!" ( uk, Блоку народно-демократичних партій "Знаємо ЯК!", Bloku narodno-demokratichnikh partiy "Znayemo YAK!") was a political alliance that took part in the pa ...
but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (winning only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. In the 30 September
2007 elections
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Africa
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, the party failed as part of the
Ukrainian Regional Asset
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* Som ...
to win parliamentary representation.
The merger of
United Centre
Andriy Baloha's Team ( uk, Команда Андрія Балоги, Komanda Andriya Balohy; formerly United Centre) is a Ukrainian political party. It is an offspring of Our Ukraine. Legally, Andriy Baloha's Team is the successor of the Party o ...
with the Democratic Party of Ukraine failed to materialize prior to the first ever congress of United Centre.
In July 2011 the chairman of the Democratic Party of Ukraine Sergey Kozachenko was sentenced to eight years in prison Kyiv District Court of Simferopol on charges of embezzling ₴65 million in credit union's "Southern".
In November 2011 the party formed a faction in the Kyiv City Council of 7 deputies, this while in the previous 2008 Kyiv City Council election the party had not won any seats.
In the 2014 Kyiv City Council election, the party won 2 seats.In Kyivrada are 9 parties - official results
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(4 June 2014) But in the
2015 Kyiv local election
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it lost these seats (it scored less than 2% of the vote).
The party did not participate in the
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...