Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

1990 ← March 24, 1994 → 1998

All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 226 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Petro Symonenko Oleksandr Moroz Vyacheslav Chornovil Party Communist Party of Ukraine Socialist Party of Ukraine People's Movement of Ukraine Leader since June 19, 1993 October 26, 1991 1989 Last election 381 did not run 111 (as part of the "Democratic Bloc") Seats won 83 25 27 Seat change -298 +25 -84

Results of the 1994 parliamentary election (inaccurate).

Prime Minister before election Yukhym Zvyahilsky Acting Elected Prime Minister Vitaliy Masol Communist Party of Ukraine

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The first parliamentary election in independent Ukraine took place in 1994. The elections were conducted for the second convocation of the Parliament regarding the previous one as temporary and transitional.

The election was a result of political compromise between the President and the parliament, which was reached on September 24, 1993. That day, the parliament adopted a decree to organize parliamentary elections ahead of schedule on March 24, 1994, and ahead of scheduled presidential elections on June 26, 1994.

Election organization

As in the previous this election took place according to the majoritarian electoral system in 450 electoral districts containing several precincts. In order to be elected a candidate needed to obtain more than 50% of votes and in order for the election to be valid more than 50% of registered voters needed to vote. The election was organized in two rounds. If no candidate obtained more than 50% in the first round, the top two candidates were listed on the ballot in the second round.

Election results

The first round took pace on March 24, 1994, and the second round on April 10, 1994. In total, in the two rounds only 336 out of 450 deputies were elected due to a low voter turnout. In the electoral regions where no deputy has been elected, new elections took place in September-October 1994. On May 30 one of the MPs, Roman Kuper, died from the heart attack. On July 15 Leonid Kuchma also surrendered his parliamentarian mandate, being elected as the President of Ukraine. Later in the summer of 1994 20 more parliamentarians were elected to the Verkhovna Rada. On August 21, another MP past away, Vitaliy Yurkovsky. In the place of Roman Kuper was elected Leonid Kravchuk on September 25. On November 20 10 more MPs were elected, while four more were elected in December. The place of Leonid Kuchma took Vasyl Yevrukhov, while one of Vitaliy Yurkovsky - Natalya Vitrenko. Following the addition election, 405 deputies were elected in total. There were further elections in the electoral regions out of which no deputy was elected, but mostly they repeatedly failed due to low participation of voters. Total 38,204,100 voters participated in the elections which constituted 75.81%.

Following list represents the seat assigned by a Party membership after the election in March-April 1994.

Political Bloc	Seats	Number of votes
Communists of Ukraine	86	3,683,332
People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh)	20	1,491,164
Peasant Party of Ukraine	19	794,614
Socialist Party of Ukraine	14	895,830
Republican Party of Ukraine	8	728,614
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists	5	361,352
Party of Democratic Rebirth	4	239,763
Labour Party of Ukraine	4	114,409
Democratic Party of Ukraine	2	312,842
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine	2	104,204
Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party	2	99,028
Civic Congress of Ukraine	2	72,473
Ukrainian National Assembly	1	148,239
Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine	1	100,007
Independent	168	14,894,269
Vacant seats	112
TOTAL	450	38,204,100

• The Liberal Party of Ukraine attained 173,503 votes, yet failed to obtain any representation in the Verkhovna Rada. Other two parties Labor Congress of Ukraine and Green Party of Ukraine received over 50,000 votes and also did not receive any seats in the parliament. The rest parties received less than 50,000 votes and amounted to 15. 28,166 votes were cast for unknown.
• The Party of the Economic Revival of Crimea was also added to parliament in summer of 1994 winning a consistency seat.

Later the following Blocs were formed in the parliament (as of May 11, 1994):

Political Bloc	Seats	Supported for the President
Communists of Ukraine	83	Oleksandr Moroz, Leonid Kuchma
Socialist Party of Ukraine	25	Oleksandr Moroz
People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh)	27	Volodymyr Lanovyi
Interregional Bloc	26	Leonid Kuchma
Bloc "Derzhavnist'"	25	Leonid Kravchuk
Bloc "Center"	38	Leonid Kravchuk
Bloc "Agrarians of Ukraine"	36	Oleksandr Tkachenko, Leonid Kravchuk
Bloc "Reforms"	27	Volodymyr Lanovyi
Bloc "Unity"	25	–
Not affiliated	23	–
TOTAL	335

Note: The political blocks formed in the Verkhovna Rada did not exactly represented a similar party. Such parties as the Peasant's Party of Ukraine (SelPU) and the Agrarians for Reform (AZR) (a breakaway SelPU members) formed the Agrarians of Ukraine block. Although some of the deputies, especially from SelPU, joined the Socialist block. The Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" (URP), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN), and the Democratic Party of Ukraine (DemPU) has formed the electoral block Derzhavnist (Statehood).

• The left electoral blocks: Communists of Ukraine, Socialist block, and Peasant's Party of Ukraine
• The right electoral blocks: People's Movement of Ukraine and Derzhavnist
• The center electoral blocks: Interregional block, Social-Marketing Choice, Unity, and Agrarians for Reforms
• The right-center electoral blocks: Reforms and Center

External links

• (Ukrainian) Parliamentary and Presidential Elections of 1994
• (Ukrainian) Elections in Ukraine
• (Ukrainian) Elections in contemporary Ukraine