Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine

Not to be confused with Liberal Party of Ukraine.
Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine
Ліберально-демократична партія України
Founded17 July 1992 (1992-07-17)[1]
IdeologyLiberalism
Political positionCentre-right
ColoursOrange
Website
https://www.ldpu.org.ua/eng/

The Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Ліберально-демократична партія України, romanized: Liberalno-demokratychna partiya Ukrayiny) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 1992.[1]

As an organization, the party traces its history to 1989 as the Ukrainian branch of Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union and was based on the People's Union in Support of Reforms (Perestroika). In fall of 1990, it split, and its Kiev branch (Kiev Liberal Democratic Union) later joined the Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine. Their logo is nearly identical to the logo of the Liberal Democrats of the United Kingdom.

At the parliamentary elections 1998, the party was part of the European choice of Ukraine alliance.[1] At the parliamentary elections 2002 the party was part of the Team of Winter Generation alliance.[1][2] Both alliances won a marginal number of votes and no seats.[1] On 3 March 2006, the party announced at its website that it will not take part in the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 because of "regional egoism". The party did not participate in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 2006 and 2007.[1] In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party competed for 1 constituency (seat),[3] but it did not win this constituency and thus missed parliamentary representation.[4] The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d e f (in Ukrainian) Ліберально-демократична партія України, DATA
  2. ^ Electoral list of candidates for deputy from Election bloc of Political Parties "Team of Winter Generation", Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) Candidates, RBC Ukraine
  4. ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC Archived October 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
  5. ^ Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine