1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election

1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election
← 1990 27 March 1994 (1994-03-27) (first round)
2–10 April 1994 (second round)		 1998 →
All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout75.81% (Decrease 8.88 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Petro Symonenko Viacheslav Chornovil Serhii Dovhan [uk]
Party KPU Rukh SelPU
Leader since 19 June 1993 4 December 1992 25 January 1992
Leader's seat Krasnoarmiisk Podilskyi Velyka Oleksandrivka
Seats won 86 20 19
Popular vote 3,683,332 1,491,164 794,614
Percentage 13.57% 5.49% 2.93%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Oleksandr Moroz Levko Lukianenko Slava Stetsko
Party SPU URP KUN
Leader since 26 October 1991 29 April 1990 18 October 1992
Leader's seat Tarashcha Novovolynsk Nadvirna
Seats won 14 8 5
Popular vote 895,830 728,614 361,352
Percentage 3.30% 2.68% 1.33%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Volodymyr Filenko [uk] Mykola Azarov Volodymyr Yavorivsky
Party PDVU PP DPU
Leader since 1 December 1990 September 1993 12 December 1992
Leader's seat Zhovtnevyi (lost) Petrovskyi Svitlovodsk
Seats won 4 4 2
Popular vote 239,763 114,409 312,842
Percentage 0.88% 0.42% 1.15%
Results by region
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before election

Ivan Plyushch
Independent

Elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada

Oleksandr Moroz
SPU

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Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 27 March 1994, with a second round between 2 and 10 April.[1] These were the first parliamentary elections in Ukraine as an independent state.[2] A total of 15 political parties won seats, although a majority of deputies were independents.[3] However, 112 seats were remained unfilled, and a succession of by-elections were required in July, August, November and December 1994 and more in December 1995 and April 1996.[1] Three hundred (300) seats or two thirds (2/3) of the parliament were required to be filled for the next convocation.

In what were the first elections held after Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of Ukraine emerged as the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 86 of the 338 seats decided in the first two rounds.[4] This election was the result of a compromise between the President and the Verkhovna Rada, which was reached on 24 September 1993 because of a political crisis caused by mass protests and strikes particularly from students and miners. On that day, the Rada adopted a decree to organize parliamentary elections ahead of schedule, and ahead of scheduled presidential elections in June.

  1. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Birch, Sarah (1995). "The Ukrainian parliamentary and presidential elections of 1994". Electoral Studies. 14 (1): 93–99. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(95)95775-6. ISSN 0261-3794.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ukrainianweek223538 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1991