7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation
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Seat composition on February 26, 2014.
Overview
Meeting place	Verkhovna Rada building
Term	12 December 2012 (2012-12-12) – 27 November 2014 (2014-11-27)
Election	2012 parliamentary election (repeat elections in single mandate constituencies on December 15, 2013)
Government	29 committees
Website	iportal.rada.gov.ua
Members	446 / 450 (on November 1, 2014)
Chairman	Oleksandr Turchynov (from February 22, 2014; Fatherland)
First Deputy	Vacant (from February 22, 2014)
Deputy	Ruslan Koshulynskyi (from December 12, 2012; Svoboda)
Party control	Coalition (from February 27, 2014)

The 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада України VII скликання) was a session of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. Its composition was based on the results of the 2012 parliamentary election. Half of the seats in the parliament were apportioned between the five winning parties based on the popular vote, while the other half was apportioned between 4 parties and 44 independents between 225 constituencies throughout the country. It first met in the capital Kyiv on December 12, 2012, and ended its session on November 27, 2014, after the 8th Verkhovna Rada began its first session.

Parliamentary work was virtually paralyzed the first months of 2013 because the opposition (UDAR, Fatherland, Freedom, others) blocked the podium and presidium seats on various days.^[1] According to a study conducted by Opora, deputies did not work for 53 days during the first hundred days in the 7th convocation.^[2]