2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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424 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada[a]
226 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout49.24% (Decrease 2.67 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Dmytro Razumkov Yuriy Boyko Yulia Tymoshenko
Party Servant of the People Opposition Platform Batkivshchyna
Leader since 27 May 2019 9 November 2018 9 July 1999
Leader's seat Party list Party list Party list
Last election New New 20 seats, 5.68%
Seats won 254 43 26
Seat change New New Increase 6
Popular vote 6,307,793 1,908,111 1,196,303
Percentage 43.16% (PR) 13.06% (PR) 8.19% (PR)
Swing New New Increase 2.51

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Petro Poroshenko Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
Party European Solidarity Holos
Leader since 31 May 2019 16 May 2019
Leader's seat Party list Party list
Last election 131 seat, 21.82% New
Seats won 25 20
Seat change Decrease 106 New
Popular vote 1,184,620 851,722
Percentage 8.11% (PR) 5.83% (PR)
Swing Decrease 13.71% New


Prime Minister before election

Volodymyr Groysman
USH

Elected Prime Minister

Oleksiy Honcharuk
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019.[1] Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 May 2019, during his inauguration.[2] The elections resulted in an outright majority, a novelty in Ukraine, for Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party, which won 254 seats.[3]

About 80 percent of the elected candidates were new to parliament, while 83 deputies were re-elected from the previous parliament and 13 deputies from earlier convocations.[3] All deputies from Servant of the People were political newcomers.[3] 61 percent of the new MPs had never before been engaged in politics.[3]

The elections were suspended in 26 of the 225 constituencies due to the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the ongoing occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast by separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic (since April 2014).


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  1. ^ Указ Президента України №303/2019 [Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 303/2019]. Official internet site of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2019. Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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