2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election

2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	69.27% ( 1.51 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– Our Ukraine Bloc Viktor Yushchenko 24.49 113 +51 KPU Petro Symonenko 20.76 64 −58 For United Ukraine! Volodymyr Lytvyn 12.23 101 +65 Tymoshenko Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko 7.54 22 New SPU Oleksandr Moroz 7.14 23 +6 SDPU(o) Viktor Medvedchuk 6.52 24 +7 Unity (Ukraine) Oleksandr Omelchenko 1.13 3 New DPU–DS Volodymyr Horbulin 0.91 4 +2 UMP Volodymyr Bezkorovainy 0.12 1 New PNERU Pavlo Matviyenko – 1 New Independents – – 94 −17 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Party-list results Constituency results Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada after Ivan Plyushch NDP Volodymyr Lytvyn For United Ukraine!

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002.^[1] The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 113 of the 450 seats.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 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.^[2] The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc complained of campaign related violations including "an informal 'media blackout,' [and] negatively slanted coverage".^[2]