Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002
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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
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, winning 111 of the 447 seats. The
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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.Ukraine:Treatment of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (SDPU); relationship with the National Salvation Forum (FNB); treatment of FNB members
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(14 August 2003)
The
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complained of campaign related violations including "an informal 'media blackout,' ndnegatively slanted coverage".


Electoral system

In this election,
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was used. Half of the deputies to
Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
(parliament of
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) were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies.Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften)
by
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,
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, 2010, (page 93)
In order to gain any (proportional) seats in Verkhovna Rada a party needed to receive at least 4% of the popular vote.


Public opinion polls


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 Mykola Yanovych Azarov ( uk, Мико́ла Я́нович Аза́ров, ; né Pakhlo; Cyrillic: Пахло; born 17 December 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014. He was t ...
. The Shevchenkivsky District Court of the
Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...
city prohibited the Tax Administration of Ukraine to spread lies against the opposition electoral bloc. 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) 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 ...
and he was a parliamentary candidate in the 90th electoral district. He died later in a local hospital.


Results

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seats ! colspan=2, Total seats , - style="text-align:center;" ! Votes ! % ! ± pp ! Seats ! Seats ! +/- , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;", Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine" , 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 ...

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 ...

Youth Party of Ukraine
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 ...

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

Solidarity
Christian Democratic Union
Forward, Ukraine!
Republican Christian Party The Republican Christian Party () is a political party in Ukraine registered July 1997.Ukrainian People's Party The Ukrainian People's Party ( uk, Українська Народна Партія; ) is a political party in Ukraine, registered on Old Year's Day 1999 as the Ukrainian National Movement ( uk, Український Народний Рух; ).
, 6,108,088 , 23.57 , 4.15 , 70 , 42 , , 50 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
, 5,178,074 , 19.99 , 4.66 , 59 , 6 , , 57 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;",
For United Ukraine! For United Ukraine! ( uk, «За Єдину Україну!», translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2002. ...
, style="text-align:left;", Agrarian Party of Ukraine
People's Democratic Party
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine The Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine ( uk, Партія промисловців i підприємців України) is a political party in Ukraine registered in April 2000. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh ...

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

Labour Ukraine
, 3,051,056 , 11.78 , 2.18 , 35 , 86 , , 85 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" ,
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( uk, Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of bloc ...
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Fatherland A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethn ...

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

Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor"
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party
, 1,882,087 , 7.26 , ''New'' , 22 , — , , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,
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 ...
, 1,780,642 , 6.87 , — , 20 , 2 , , 5 , - , 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 ...
, 1,626,721 , 6.28 , 2.27 , 19 , 8 , , 10 , - , colspan=10 bgcolor="#C0C0C0", , - , style="background:blue;", , style="text-align:left;" , Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc , style="text-align:left;",
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 ...

Party of Educators of Ukraine
, 836,198 , 3.23 , 0.82 , — , — , — , 17 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,
Women for the Future All-Ukrainian Political Union Women for the Future ( uk, Всеукраїнське політичне об’єднання "Жінки за майбутнє") is a political party in Ukraine registered on 30 March 2001. The party was created by ...
, 547,916 , 2.11 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:green;", , style="text-align:left;" ,
Team of Winter Generation The Team of Winter Generation ( uk, Команда Озимого Покоління; ''Komanda Ozimogo Pokolinnja'') was an electoral alliance in Ukraine. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote a ...
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Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine The Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine ( uk, Ліберально-демократична партія України, Liberalno-demokratychna partiya Ukrayiny) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 1992.Viche
Party of Private Property A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature ...

Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party The Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party ( uk, Українська селянська демократична партія) is a former political party in Ukraine. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 15 January 1991. The party merg ...
, 525,025 , 2.03 , 0.99 , — , — , — , 1 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2, Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) , 362,712 , 1.40 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , 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 ...
, 338,252 , 1.31 , 4.13 , — , — , — , 19 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2,
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, 299,764 , 1.16 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Unity , style="text-align:left;" ,
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Social Democratic Union
Young Ukraine
Ukrainian Party of Justice
, 282,491 , 1.09 , ''New'' , — , 4 , , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic Party of Ukraine — Democratic Union , 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 ...

Democratic Union
, 227,393 , 0.88 , 0.35 , — , 5 , , 3 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , New Generation of Ukraine , 201,157 , 0.78 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" ,
Russian Bloc The Russian Bloc (, Russian language, Russian: Русский блок) was a former political party, political alliance in Ukraine. It consisted of: *Party "Rus", Rus'-Ukrainian Union *Union Party (Ukraine), Union Party *Russian Bloc (party), Fo ...
, style="text-align:left;" , For One Rus
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Union Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''Un ...
, 190,839 , 0.74 , 0.04 , — , — , — , 1 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , ZUBR (For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) , style="text-align:left;" , For Human Rights
Light from the East
, 112,259 , 0.43 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,
Communist Party of Workers and Peasants The Communist Party of Workers and Peasants ( uk, Комуністична партія робітників і селян, ''Komunistychna Partiya Robitnykiv i Selian'', KPRS) was a political party in Ukraine, formed in 2001 following a split from ...
, 106,904 , 0.41 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,
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 ...
, 98,428 , 0.38 , — , — , — , — , 12 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Rehabilitation of the People of Ukraine Party , 91,098 , 0.35 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , All-Ukrainian Party of Workers , 88,842 , 0.34 , 0.45 , — , — , — , 1 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , All-Ukrainian Association of Christians , 75,174 , 0.29 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , 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 ...
, 68,664 , 0.27 , 0.05 , — , — , — , 0 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Bloc "Popular Movement of Ukraine" , style="text-align:left;" ,
People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity (NRU for Unity) is a political party of Ukraine, off-shot of the People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Uk ...

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, 41,730 , 0.16 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Bloc "Against all" , style="text-align:left;" , Patriotic Party of Ukraine
Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine The Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine ( uk, Політична партія малого і середнього бізнесу) is a political party in Ukraine registered on April 1, 1999.Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" , 21,957 , 0.08 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Ukrainian National Assembly , 11,839 , 0.05 , 0.34 , — , 1 , , 1 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" , Bloc of Ukrainian Party and New World , style="text-align:left;" , Ukrainian Party
All-Ukrainian Party of Interethnic Understanding "New World"
, 11,048 , 0.04 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Liberal Ukraine , 8,535 , 0.03 , ''New'' , — , — , — , ''New'' , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 ,
Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a Hospitality, host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will oft ...
, — , — , — , — , 1 , , 1 , - , style="background:;", , style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 , Independents , — , — , — , — , 66 , , 39 , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3, Against all , 635,199 , 2.45 , 2.81 , , , , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3, Invalid ballot papers , 963,462 , 3.72 , 0.63 , , , , , - , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Vacant (constituencies with no result) , , , , , 3 , 3 , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Total , 25,909,407 , 100 , , 225 , 225 , 450 , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;", Registered voters/turnout , 37,403,661 , 69.27 , 1.51 , , , , , - , colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" , Source
Central Electoral Commission
, - , colspan=10 style="text-align:left;" , Notes: The final election results differed greatly from the final
opinion poll An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinion ...
. The 2002 parliamentary elections were the first that substantially reduced fragmentation of the
Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
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 Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...
. The Communist Party received most of its votes from eastern and southern regions, as well as from
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.
For United Ukraine For United Ukraine! ( uk, «За Єдину Україну!», translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2002. ...
block, which included
Victor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...
'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 Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();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 Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...
with 22.05%.


Electoral districts

The following table demonstrates all winners of the 225 electoral districts. Several lawmakers elected into the new parliament have family ties with other lawmakers or other family members in the executive branch of
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.


Faction changes after 2002 election

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Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
, valign=top, 119 , valign=top, 110 , valign=top, 102 , valign=top, 45 , valign=top, 74 seats , - , align=left,
Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...
, valign=top, 64 , valign=top, 61 , valign=top, 60 , valign=top, 56 , valign=top, 8 seats , - , align=left,
For United Ukraine For United Ukraine! ( uk, «За Єдину Україну!», translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2002. ...
, valign=top, 175 , valign=top, Disbanded , valign=top, Disbanded , valign=top, Disbanded , valign=top, 175 seats , - , align=left,
Electoral Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( uk, Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of bloc ...
, valign=top, 23 , valign=top, 20 , valign=top, 18 , valign=top, 40 , valign=top, 17 seats , - , 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 ...
, valign=top, 22 , valign=top, 21 , valign=top, 20 , valign=top, 26 , valign=top, 4 seats , - , align=left,
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) ( uk, Соцiал-демократична партія України (об'єднана); СДПУ(о)), is a Ukraine, Ukrainian political parties in Ukraine, political party that was originally ...
, valign=top, 31 , valign=top, 38 , valign=top, 40 , valign=top, 20 , valign=top, 11 seats , - , colspan=6 align=left, Source: Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson,
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, 2005,
Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West
by
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and
Mykola Riabchuk Mykola Riabchuk ( uk, Рябчук Микола Юрійович; born September 27, 1953, in Lutsk) - Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical art ...
, Peter Lang, 2009,
Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification
by Olexiy Haran,
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ( NaUKMA) ( uk, Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія» (НаУКМА)) is a national, research university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. The ...
, October 2002 By October 2002 the
For United Ukraine For United Ukraine! ( uk, «За Єдину Україну!», translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2002. ...
faction had broken down in 8 new parliamentary factions.Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification
by Olexiy Haran,
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ( NaUKMA) ( uk, Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія» (НаУКМА)) is a national, research university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. The ...
, October 2002


References


External links


Central Election Commission of UkraineRelatively in-depth analysis of the election
GlobalSecurity.org {{Ukrainian elections 2002
Parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
March 2002 events in Ukraine