People's Party (Ukraine)

People's Party
Народна Партія
LeaderVolodymyr Lytvyn
Founded1996
IdeologyAgrarianism[1]
Political positionCentre[1] to centre-left
Colours  Blue
Verkhovna Rada
0 / 450
Regions (2010)
136 / 3,056
[2]
Website
narodna.org.ua

The People's Party (Ukrainian: Народна Партія; Narodna Partiya) is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Аграрна партія України).[3] The party is led by Volodymyr Lytvyn.[3] In September 2011, he claimed that his party was only surpassed in membership by the Party of Regions and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.[4]

The party won 2 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5] The party did not take part in national elections since 2012.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2012). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of elections, Central Election Commission
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Народна Партія, Database DATA
  4. ^ Regions Party and People's Party holding consultations on unification, Kyiv Post (September 29, 2011)
  5. ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference URK.VOTEPP76 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  8. ^ Olszański, Tadeusz A. (16 October 2014), Before the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, OSW—Centre for Eastern Studies