2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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423 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada[a]
226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout51.91% (Decrease 5.52 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Vitali Klitschko[b] Arseniy Yatsenyuk Hanna Hopko[c]
Party Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front Self Reliance
Leader since 14 September 2014[1] 10 September 2014 12 September 2014[2]
Leader's seat Party list Party list Party list
Last election New New New
Seats won 131 82 33
Seat change New New New
Popular vote 3,437,521 3,488,114 1,729,271
Percentage 21.82% (PR) 22.14% (PR) 10.98% (PR)
Swing New New New

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Yuriy Boyko Oleh Liashko Nadiya Savchenko[d]
Party Opposition Bloc Radical Party Batkivshchyna
Leader since 21 September 2014 8 August 2011 14 September 2014
Leader's seat Party list Party list Party list
Last election New 1 seat, 1.08% 101 seat, 25.55%
Seats won 29 22 20
Seat change New Increase 21 Decrease 81
Popular vote 1,486,203 1,173,131 894,837
Percentage 9.43% (PR) 7.45% (PR) 5.68% (PR)
Swing New Increase 6.38% Decrease 19.87%

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Oleh Tyahnybok Serhiy Tihipko Vira Ulianchenko
Party Svoboda Strong Ukraine Zastup
Leader since 14 February 2004 5 August 2014 12 September 2014
Leader's seat Party list (lost) Party list (lost) Party list (lost)
Last election 37 seats, 10.45% New New
Seats won 6 1 1
Seat change Decrease 31 New New
Popular vote 742,022 491,471 418,301
Percentage 4.71% (PR) 3.12% (PR) 2.66% (PR)
Swing Decrease 5.74% New New


Prime Minister before election

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

Elected Prime Minister

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

Snap parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 26 October 2014 to elect members of the Verkhovna Rada. President Petro Poroshenko had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential elections in May.[3] The July breakup of the ruling coalition gave him the right to dissolve the parliament, so on 25 August 2014 he announced the early election.[4]

Voting did not take place in the Russian-occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, nor in large parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because of the ongoing war in Donbas.[5] Because of this, 27 of the 450 seats remained unfilled.

The elections were seen as a realignment. Ruling from 2010 to 2014, and taking one of the top two spots in elections since 2006, the Party of Regions did not participate in the 2014 elections, while its informal successor Opposition Bloc received only 9% of the vote. For the first time since Ukrainian independence, the Communist Party of Ukraine failed to win a seat. Four newly created parties received the highest vote shares; the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (formed in July 2014 by Poroshenko's supporters), People's Front (split from Fatherland in August 2014), Self Reliance (registered in 2012) and Opposition Bloc (formed in September 2014 by a group of the former Party of Regions members).

The work of the new parliament started on 27 November 2014.[6] On the same day, five factions formed the "European Ukraine" coalition: Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Radical Party and Fatherland.[7] On 2 December the second Yatsenyuk government was approved.[8]


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  1. ^ https://www.dw.com/uk/виборчий-список-блоку-петра-порошенка-очолив-кличко/a-17921368 Виборчий список "Блоку Петра Порошенка" очолив Кличко
  2. ^ https://vybory.detector.media/2014/09/12/hanna-hopko-ocholyla-vyborchyj-spysok-partiji-samopomich-ehor-soboljev-13-j/ Ганна Гопко очолила виборчий список партії «Самопоміч», Єгор Соболєв – 13-й
  3. ^ Poroshenko hopes for early parliamentary elections in Ukraine this fall - presidential envoy, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)
  4. ^ Ukraine President Poroshenko Calls Snap General Election, Bloomberg News (25 August 2014)
  5. ^ Parliamentary elections not to be held at nine constituencies in Donetsk region and six constituencies in Luhansk region - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (25 October 2014)
  6. ^ "Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27", UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  7. ^ "Five factions form Verkhovna Rada coalition".
  8. ^ "Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup".

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