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on 29 March 1998. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The

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remained the largest party in the

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, winning 121 of the 445 seats. 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

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, 2010, (page 93) that received at least 4% of the popular vote.Parliamentary chronicles

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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

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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. , - style="text-align:center;" ! rowspan=2 colspan=3, Parties and coalitions ! colspan=3, Nationwide constituency ! rowspan=2, Const.
seats ! colspan=2, Total seats , - style="text-align:center;" ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! Seats ! +/- , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

, 6,550,353 , 24.65 , 84 , 38 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, R ...

, 2,498,262 , 9.40 , 32 , 14 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party – Peasant Party , style="text-align:left;" ,

Socialist Party of Ukraine The Socialist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Соціалістична Партія України, translit=Sotsialistychna Partiia Ukrayiny, SPU) was a social democratic and democratic socialist political party in Ukraine. It was one of the oldest par ...

Peasant Party of Ukraine The Peasant Party of Ukraine (, ''Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny'', SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992 as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991. At t ...

, 2,273,788 , 8.56 , 29 , 6 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

Party of Greens of Ukraine The Party of Greens of Ukraine ( uk, Партія зелених України, Partiia zelenykh Ukrayiny, PZU) is a Ukrainian green political party founded in 1990 by Yuriy Shcherbak and registered in May 1991. The party is a successor of t ...

, 1,444,264 , 5.44 , 19 , — , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to: * People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan *People's Democratic Party (Belize) *People's Democratic Party (Bhutan) *People's Democratic Party (Chile) * People's Democratic Party (Dom ...

, 1,331,460 , 5.01 , 17 , 10 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2, Hromada , 1,242,235 , 4.68 , 16 , 7 , , , - , style="background:blue;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) is a banned Pro-Russian National Bolshevik political party in Ukraine led by Nataliya Vitrenko. The party was represented in Ukraine's national parliament between 1998 and 2002. History The p ...

, 1,075,118 , 4.05 , 14 , 3 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) ( uk, Соцiал-демократична партія України (об'єднана); СДПУ(о)), is a Ukrainian political party that was originally established as the Social Democratic ...

, 1,066,113 , 4.01 , 14 , 3 , , , - , colspan=9 style="background-color:#C0C0C0", , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2, Agrarian Party of Ukraine , 978,330 , 3.68 , — , 7 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

Reforms and Order Party Party Reform and Order ( uk, Партія «Реформи і порядок» ''Partiya Reformy i Poriadok'') was a liberal political party in Ukraine.

, 832,574 , 3.13 , — , 4 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Laborious Ukraine , style="text-align:left;" , Civil Congress of Ukraine

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, 813,326 , 3.06 , — , 1 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , National Front , style="text-align:left;" ,

Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Конгрес українських націоналістів ''Konhres ukrayinskykh natsionalistiv'') is a far-right political party in Ukraine. It was founded on October 18, 1992, and registered wit ...

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Ukrainian Republican Party The Ukrainian Republican Party ( uk, Українська Республіканська партія; ''Ukrajinska Respublikanska Partija'') was the first registered political party in Ukraine created on November 5, 1990

, 721,966 , 2.72 , — , 7 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Together , style="text-align:left;" ,

Liberal Party of Ukraine The Liberal Party of Ukraine ( uk, Ліберальна партія України, translit=Liberalna Partiya Ukrayiny, or LPU) is a modern Ukrainian political party. It was founded on September 12, 1991 in Donetsk. The official date of registra ...

Party of Labor , 502,969 , 1.89 , — , 2 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Forward Ukraine! , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Democratic Union

Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party ( uk, Українська християнсько-демократична партія, ''Ukrayinska Khrystyianska Demokratychna Partiya''; UKhDP) is a small political party of Ukrainian SSR and Ukraine. It ...

, 461,924 , 1.74 , — , 3 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ (title), Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive ...

, 344,826 , 1.30 , — , 2 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Bloc of Democratic Parties — NEP , style="text-align:left;" ,

Democratic Party of Ukraine The Democratic Party of Ukraine ( uk, Демократична партія України; ''Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayni'') is a political party in Ukraine registered in 1991. Until 2006 it had a parliamentary representation, but after associa ...

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 ...

, 326,489 , 1.23 , — , 2 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,

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, 250,476 , 0.94 , — , — , — , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , SLON — Social Liberal Association , style="text-align:left;" , Viche
Inter-regional Bloc of Reforms , 241,367 , 0.91 , — , 1 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine , 241,262 , 0.91 , — , 2 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , All-Ukrainian Party of Workers , 210,622 , 0.79 , — , 1 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

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, 186,249 , 0.70 , — , 1 , , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2, All-Ukrainian Party of Women's Initiatives , 154,650 , 0.58 , — , — , — , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,

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, 105,977 , 0.39 , — , — , — , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,

Social Democratic Party of Ukraine Social Democratic Party of Ukraine ( uk, Соцiал-демократична партія України) is a political party in Ukraine. The party was created after in 1990 after the end of the one party system. The original Social Democratic ...

, 85,045 , 0.32 , — , — , — , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,

Motherland Defenders Party The Motherland Defenders Party ( uk, Партія захисників Вітчизни) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 1997. Social-National Party of Ukraine
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, 37,118 , 0.13 , — , — , — , , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Independents , — , — , — , 105 , , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3, Against all , 1,396,592 , 5.26 , , , , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3, Invalid ballot papers , 821,699 , 3.09 , , , , , - , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Vacant (constituencies with no result) , , , , 5 , 5 , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Total , 26,571,273 , 100 , 225 , 225 , 450 , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Registered voters/turnout , 37,540,092 , 70.78 , , , , , - , colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" , Source
Central Electoral Commission
, - , colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" , Notes:

By regions (single constituency)

Deputies/Elected in multi-mandate constituency/Elections 29.11.1998
, Central Election Commission of Ukraine ;Crimea (10/10) * No party affiliation: Serhiy Ivanov, Anatoliy Rakhansky, Valeriy Horbatov, Refat Chubarov, Anatoliy Franchuk *

: Yevhen Leshan, Viktor Myronenko * Soyuz: Lev Myrymsky * People's Democratic Party of Ukraine: Ihor Franchuk,

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;Vinnytsia Region (8/8) * No party affiliation:

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko se ...

( No.12), Oleh Yukhnovsky, Oleksandr Shpak, Yevhen Smirnov, Oleksandr Stoyan * People's Democratic Party of Ukraine: Ihor Kvyatkovsky, Anatoliy Matviyenko *

: Mykola Pasyeka ;Volyn Region (4/5) * National Front (

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): Valeriy Dibrova * Agrarian: Kateryna Vashchuk * No party affiliation: Mykola Martynenko *

: 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. By January 2000, the

and Hromada had not had any deputies; while

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, 2001 Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (later to become the biggest party of Ukraine as

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(7 November 2012)) 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).2001 Political sketches: too early for summing up

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Batkivshchyna The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Pe ...

, 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 Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
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and Michael A. McFaul, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" ''All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna''

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split into 2 different factions in the spring of 1999 (the largest membership of the breakaway faction led by

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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). Other mayor "non-elected" factions/parties to emerge in parliament after the election were: SolidarityUkrainian Political Update
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and Alex Frishberg, Frishberg & Partners, 21 February 2008 (page 22) (27 to 20 members) and Labour UkraineExplaining State Capture and State Capture Modes
by Oleksiy Omelyanchuk,

, 2001 (page 22)
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(November 27, 2000) (38 members in June 2002); by June 2002 the parliament had 8 more factions then its original 8 in May 1998.

References

External links

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