1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	70.78% ( 5.03 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Petro Symonenko Viacheslav Chornovil Oleksandr Moroz Party KPU Rukh SPU–SelPU Leader since 19 June 1993 4 December 1992 1 November 1997 Leader's seat Party list Party list Kyiv 92 [uk] Last election 86 seats, 13.57% 20 seats, 5.49% 33 seats, 6.23% Seats won 121 46 34 Seat change 35 26 1 Popular vote 6,550,353 2,498,262 2,273,788 Percentage 25.44% (PR) 9.70% (PR) 8.83% (PR) Swing 11.87% 4.21% 2.60%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Anatoliy Matviyenko Pavlo Lazarenko Vitaliy Kononov Party NDP Hromada Party of Greens Leader since 24 February 1996 22 March 1994 9 October 1992 Leader's seat Vinnytsia 17 [uk] Dnipropetrovsk 40 [uk] Party list Last election New New 0 seats 0.27% Seats won 28 24 19 Seat change New New 19 Popular vote 1,331,460 1,242,235 1,444,264 Percentage 5.17% (PR) 4.82% (PR) 5.61% (PR) Swing New New 5.34%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Leonid Kravchuk Nataliya Vitrenko Kateryna Vashchuk Party SDPU(o) PSPU Agrarian Party Leader since January 1998[1] 20 April 1996 March 1997 Leader's seat Party list Sumy 160 [uk] Volyn 20 [uk] Last election New New New Seats won 17 16 9 Seat change New New New Popular vote 1,066,113 1,075,118 978,330 Percentage 4.14% (PR) 4.18% (PR) 3.80% (PR) Swing New New New
Party-list results Constituency results
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before election Oleksandr Moroz SPU–SelPU Elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Tkachenko SPU–SelPU

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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]

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.