1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Flag of Ukraine.svg
  1994 29 March 1998 2002  

All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout70.78% (Decrease2.svg 5.03 pp)
 First partySecond partyThird party
  NDU 3 Simonenko Petro Mikolaiovich.jpg NDU 3 Chornovil Viacheslav Maksimovich.jpg NDU 3 Moroz Oleksandr Oleksandrovich.jpg
Leader Petro Symonenko Viacheslav Chornovil Oleksandr Moroz
Party KPU Rukh SPU–SelPU
Leader since19 June 19934 December 19921 November 1997
Leader's seatParty listParty list Kyiv 92  [ uk ]
Last election86 seats, 13.57%20 seats, 5.49%33 seats, 6.23%
Seats won1214634
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 35Increase2.svg 26Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote6,550,3532,498,2622,273,788
Percentage25.44% (PR)9.70% (PR)8.83% (PR)
SwingIncrease2.svg 11.87%Increase2.svg 4.21%Increase2.svg 2.60%

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  NDU 3 Matviienko Anatolii Sergiiovich.jpg NDU 3 Lazarenko Pavlo Ivanovich.jpg NDU 3 Kononov Vitalii Mikolaiovich.jpg
Leader Anatoliy Matviyenko Pavlo Lazarenko Vitaliy Kononov
Party NDP Hromada Party of Greens
Leader since24 February 199622 March 19949 October 1992
Leader's seat Vinnytsia 17  [ uk ] Dnipropetrovsk 40  [ uk ]Party list
Last electionNewNew0 seats 0.27%
Seats won282419
Seat changeNewNewIncrease2.svg 19
Popular vote1,331,4601,242,2351,444,264
Percentage5.17% (PR)4.82% (PR)5.61% (PR)
SwingNewNewIncrease2.svg 5.34%

 Seventh partyEighth partyNinth party
  NDU 3 Kravchuk Leonid Makarovich.jpg NDU 3 Vitrenko Nataliia Mikhailivna.jpg NDU 3 Vashchuk Katerina Timofiyivna.jpg
Leader Leonid Kravchuk Nataliya Vitrenko Kateryna Vashchuk
Party SDPU(o) PSPU Agrarian Party
Leader sinceJanuary 1998 [1] 20 April 1996March 1997
Leader's seatParty list Sumy 160  [ uk ] Volyn 20  [ uk ]
Last electionNewNewNew
Seats won17169
Seat changeNewNewNew
Popular vote1,066,1131,075,118978,330
Percentage4.14% (PR)4.18% (PR)3.80% (PR)
SwingNewNewNew

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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before election

Oleksandr Moroz
SPU–SelPU

Elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada

Oleksandr Tkachenko
SPU–SelPU

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998. [2] The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 seats. [3]

Contents

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 [4] that received at least 4% of the popular vote. [5]

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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PartyProportionalConstituencyTotal
seats
+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Communist Party of Ukraine 6,550,35325.44843,495,71113.6237121+35
People's Movement of Ukraine 2,498,2629.70321,500,6485.851446+26
Socialist Party – Peasant Party 2,273,7888.83291,067,2674.16534+1
Party of Greens of Ukraine 1,444,2645.6119196,0440.76019+19
People's Democratic Party 1,331,4605.1717985,7703.841128+24
Hromada 1,242,2354.8216880,0733.43824New
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine 1,075,1184.1814231,0430.90216New
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) 1,066,1134.1414450,5221.76317New
Agrarian Party of Ukraine 978,3303.800784,2873.0699New
Reforms and Order Party 832,5743.230455,1661.7733New
Laborious Ukraine (GKUUPS)813,3263.160123,8690.4811–1
National Front (KUNUKRPURP)721,9662.800642,1252.5055–10
Together (LPUPP)502,9691.950309,3711.2111–3
Forward Ukraine! (KDSUKDP)461,9241.790129,3780.5022+2
Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine 344,8261.340190,7830.7422+1
Bloc of Democratic Parties – NEP (DPUPEV)326,4891.270275,4601.0711–1
Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine 250,4760.97028,4180.1100New
SLON – Social Liberal Association (VicheMBR)241,3670.940112,9680.44110
Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine 241,2620.940204,6310.8022New
All-Ukrainian Party of Workers210,6220.82057,4630.2200New
Soyuz 186,2490.72038,4670.1511New
All-Ukrainian Party of Women's Initiatives154,6500.60018,2080.0700New
Republican Christian Party 143,4960.56070,0640.2700New
Ukrainian National Assembly 105,9770.41088,1360.3400–1
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine 85,0450.33036,6700.1400–2
Motherland Defenders Party 81,8080.32026,2860.1000New
Party of Spiritual, Economic and Social Progress53,1470.21028,4180.1100New
Party of Muslims of Ukraine52,6130.2001,3420.0100New
Fewer Words (SNPUDSU)45,1550.18065,7600.26110
European Choice of Ukraine (LDPUUSDP)37,1180.14059,4740.23000
Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine17,6560.0700New
Women's Party of Ukraine15,8670.0600New
Party of Slavic Unity of Ukraine12,4700.05000
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists 1,9440.01000
Party of National Salvation of Ukraine1,5440.01000
Independents11,148,33343.43111111–57
Vacant55
Against all1,396,5925.421,915,5317.46
Total25,749,574100.0022525,667,167100.002254500
Valid votes25,749,57496.9125,667,16796.60
Invalid/blank votes821,6993.09904,1063.40
Total votes26,571,273100.0026,571,273100.00
Registered voters/turnout37,540,09270.7837,540,09270.78
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, University of Essex

By region (single constituency)

[6]

1998 constituents winners Vibori VRU 1998 Lideri TVO mazhoritarniki.PNG
1998 constituents winners
Crimea (10/10)
Vinnytsia Region (8/8)
Volyn Region (4/5)
Dnipropetrovsk Region (16/17)
Donetsk Region (21/23)
Zhytomyr Region (5/6)
Zakarpattia Region (5/5)
Zaporizhzhia Region (7/9)
Ivano-Frankivsk Region (6/6)
Kirovohrad Region (3/5)
Luhansk Region (12/12)
Lviv Region (10/12)
Mykolaiv Region (3/6)
Odesa Region (10/11)
Kyiv Region (7/8)
Poltava Region (8/8)
Rivne Region (5/5)
Sumy Region (6/6)
Ternopil Region (4/5)
Kharkiv Region (12/14)
Kherson Region (6/6)
Khmelnytskyi Region (7/7)
Cherkasy Region (7/7)
Chernivtsi Region (4/4)
Chernihiv Region (5/6)
Kyiv (11/12)
Sevastopol (2/2)

Party affiliation changes after the elections

The size of the factions created in parliament after the election fluctuated. [7] 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. [7] All these factions where disbanded due to the lack of members. [8]

Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine (later to become the biggest party of Ukraine as Party of Regions [9] ) 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). [7] [10] [11] Later to become second biggest party of Ukraine, [9] 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. [12] [13] [14]

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). [7] [8]

Other mayor "non-elected" factions/parties to emerge in parliament after the election were: Solidarity [15] (27 to 20 members [7] ) and Labour Ukraine [16] (38 members in June 2002 [7] ); by June 2002 the parliament had 8 more factions then its original 8 in May 1998. [7]

References

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  2. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1991
  4. Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften) by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN   90-5629-631-0 (page 93)
  5. Parliamentary chronicles, The Ukrainian Week (30 November 2018)
  6. Deputies/Elected in multi-mandate constituency/Elections 29.11.1998 Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine , Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design by Paul D'Anieri, M.E. Sharpe, 2006, ISBN   978-0-7656-1811-5
  8. 1 2 Ukraine and Russia: The Post-Soviet Transition by Roman Solchanyk, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 ISBN   0742510174
  9. 1 2 After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine , Centre for Eastern Studies (7 November 2012)
  10. 2001 Political sketches: too early for summing up, Central European University (January 4, 2002)
  11. Ukraine Political Parties, GlobalSecurity.org
  12. Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough by Anders Aslund and Michael A. McFaul, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006, ISBN   978-0-87003-221-9
  13. State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian Parliament, 1990-2003 by Sarah Whitmore, Routledge, 2004, ISBN   978-0-415-33195-1, page 106
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