1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	70.78% ( 5.03 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– KPU Petro Symonenko 25.44 121 +35 Rukh Vyacheslav Chornovil 9.70 46 +26 SPU–SelPU Oleksandr Moroz 8.83 34 +1 Party of Greens Vitaliy Kononov 5.61 19 New NDP Anatoliy Matviyenko 5.17 28 +24 Hromada Pavlo Lazarenko 4.82 24 New PSPU Nataliya Vitrenko 4.18 16 New SDPU(o) Leonid Kravchuk 4.14 17 New APU Kateryna Vashchuk 3.80 9 New PRP Serhiy Sobolyev 3.23 3 New Labour Ukraine Ivan Herasymov 3.16 1 −1 National Front Levko Lukyanenko 2.80 5 −10 LPU–PP Volodymyr Shcherban 1.95 1 −3 CDU–UCDP Oleksandr Bazylyuk 1.79 2 +2 CDPU Vitaly Zhuravsky 1.34 2 +1 DPU–PEV Volodymyr Yavorivsky 1.27 1 −1 Viche–MBR Volodymyr Hrynyov 0.94 1 +1 PRVU Volodymyr Rybak 0.94 2 New Soyuz Lev Myrymsʹkyy 0.72 1 New SNPU–DSU Yaroslav Andrushkiv 0.16 1 +1 Independents – – 111 −57 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by region Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada after Oleksandr Moroz SPU–SelPU Oleksandr Tkachenko SPU–SelPU

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Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998.^[1] The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 seats.^[2]

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.