1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

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elected members
All 450 seats in the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	85% (first round) 79% (second round)[1]
Party Leader Seats +/– CPU Volodymyr Ivashko 331 −119 Democratic Bloc Ihor Yukhnovsky 111 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by electoral district Chairman of the Supreme Soviet before Chairman of the Supreme Soviet after Platon Kostiuk CPU Volodymyr Ivashko CPU

Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Ukrainian SSR on 4 March 1990, with runoffs in some seats held between 10 and 18 March. The elections were held to elect deputies to the republic's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Simultaneously, elections of oblast councils also took place in their respective administrative divisions.

They were the first relatively free elections held in the SSR,^[2] and the closest thing to a free election Ukraine had seen since the unfinished 1918 Constituent Assembly elections. Although the campaign was far from being clear and transparent, representatives of the Democratic Bloc were the first to provide a legal challenge to the authority of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR in parliament. A total of 442 National Deputies were elected – short of the 450 seat total, due to low voter turnout.

The parliamentary convocation that convened after the 1990 election declared the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991. Later on, an amendment to the official number of parliamentary convocations recognized this 12th Convocation of the Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR, as the first Parliament of Ukraine of the 1st Convocation.