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2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election
	; ;
; All 450 seats of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; 226 seats needed for a majority
	; ; Results of the 2002 parliamentary election.;
; Chairman of Parliament before election; Ivan Plyushch; NDPU; ;	; Elected Chairman of Parliament ; Volodymyr Lytvyn; For United Ukraine!; ;

Single constituency winners

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002.^[1] The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats.^[2]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted at the time that there were physical assaults and harassment of candidates and campaign workers associated with opposition political parties prior to the March election.^[3] The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc complained of campaign related violations including "an informal 'media blackout,' [and] negatively slanted coverage".^[3]

Electoral system

Half of the deputies to Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies.^[4] In order to gain any (proportional) seats in Verkhovna Rada a party needed to receive at least 4% of the popular vote.^[5]

Public opinion polls

Polls	Our Ukraine	Communists	ZaEdU^[6]	SDPU (o)^[7]	BYuT^[8]	Socialists	Vitrenko^[9]	Greens	Zh/M^[10]	KOP^[11]	Apple
All-Ukrainian Social Service (3/31/2002)^[12]	22%	20%	14%	8%	6%	5%	3.5%
Razumkov Centre (3/29/2002)^[13]	26-28%	18-19%	7-8%	9-10%	7-8%	3.5-4.5%	4-5%	4.5-5.5%	4-5%	2.5-3.5%	2.5-3%
Politic's Institute (3/29/2002)^[13]	29-32%	19-21%	6-8%	7-9%	4-5%	4-5%		5-6%	4-5%
Ukrainian Institute of Social Research and Center "Social Monitoring" (3/27/2002)^[14]	23-25%	17-19%	11-13%	10-12%	5.5-7%	3.5-4.5%	3-4%	4-5.5%	4-5.5%	2.5-4%	2.5-3.5%
Center SOCIS (3/27/2002)^[14]	31-33%	17-19%	5-6%	7-8%	3-4%	2-3%	2-3%	5-6%	4-5%

Incidents

On March 29, 2002 the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko won a case on defamation against the Chairman of the Tax Administration of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. The Shevchenkivsky District Court of the Kiev city prohibited the Tax Administration of Ukraine to spread lies against the opposition electoral bloc.^[15]

Late at night on March 29, 2002 was mortally wounded a vice-governor of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Mykola Shkriblyak. Shkriblyak was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) and he ran for the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) at the 90th electoral district. He died later in a local hospital.^[16]

Results

e • d
← Summary of the 31 March 2002 Verkhovna Rada election results →
Parties and coalitions			Nationwide constituency				Const. seats	Total seats
Parties and coalitions			Votes	%	±pp	Seats	Const. seats	Seats	+/-
	Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine"	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Liberal Party of Ukraine Youth Party of Ukraine People's Movement of Ukraine Reforms and Order Party ^[a] Solidarity Christian Democratic Union Forward, Ukraine! Republican Christian Party Ukrainian People's Party	6,108,088	23.57	4.15^[b]	70	42	112 / 450	50
	Communist Party of Ukraine		5,178,074	19.99	4.66	59	6	65 / 450	57
	For United Ukraine!	Agrarian Party of Ukraine People's Democratic Party Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine Party of Regions Labour Ukraine	3,051,056	11.78	2.18^[c]	35	86	121 / 450	85
	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc	Fatherland Ukrainian Republican Party Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" Ukrainian Social Democratic Party	1,882,087	7.26	New	22	—	22 / 450	New
	Socialist Party of Ukraine		1,780,642	6.87	—^[d]	20	2	22 / 450	5
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)		1,626,721	6.28	2.27	19	8	27 / 450	10

	Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine Party of Educators of Ukraine	836,198	3.23	0.82^[e]	—	—	—	17
	Women for the Future		547,916	2.11	New	—	—	—	New
	Team of Winter Generation	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine Viche Party of Private Property Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	525,025	2.03	0.99^[f]	—	—	—	1
	Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)		362,712	1.40	New	—	—	—	New
	Party of Greens of Ukraine		338,252	1.31	4.13	—	—	—	19
	Apple		299,764	1.16	New	—	—	—	New
	Unity	Unity Social Democratic Union Young Ukraine Ukrainian Party of Justice	282,491	1.09	New	—	4	4 / 450	New
	Democratic Party of Ukraine — Democratic Union	Democratic Party of Ukraine Democratic Union	227,393	0.88	0.35^[g]	—	5	5 / 450	3
	New Generation of Ukraine		201,157	0.78	New	—	—	—	New
	Russian Bloc	For One Rus Rus Union	190,839	0.74	0.04^[h]	—	—	—	1
	ZUBR^[i] (For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia)	For Human Rights Light from the East	112,259	0.43	New	—	—	—	New
	Communist Party of Workers and Peasants		106,904	0.41	New	—	—	—	New
	Peasant Party of Ukraine		98,428	0.38	—^[j]	—	—	—	12
	Rehabilitation of the People of Ukraine Party		91,098	0.35	New	—	—	—	New
	All-Ukrainian Party of Workers		88,842	0.34	0.45	—	—	—	1
	All-Ukrainian Association of Christians		75,174	0.29	New	—	—	—	New
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine		68,664	0.27	0.05	—	—	—	0
	Bloc "Popular Movement of Ukraine"	People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity Center	41,730	0.16	New	—	—	—	New
	Bloc "Against all"	Patriotic Party of Ukraine Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine	29,665	0.11	New	—	—	—	New
	Ukrainian Marine Party		29,025	0.11	New	—	1	1 / 450	New
	Popular Party of Investors and Social Protection		27,273	0.11	New	—	—	—	New
	All-Ukrainian Party "New Force"		26,299	0.10	New	—	—	—	New
	Christian Movement		23,591	0.09	New	—	—	—	New
	Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice"		21,957	0.08	New	—	—	—	New
	Ukrainian National Assembly		11,839	0.05	0.34	—	1	1 / 450	1
	Bloc of Ukrainian Party and New World	Ukrainian Party All-Ukrainian Party of Interethnic Understanding "New World"	11,048	0.04	New	—	—	—	New
	Liberal Ukraine		8,535	0.03	New	—	—	—	New
	Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine		—^[k]	—	—	—	1	1 / 450	1
	Independents		—	—	—	—	66	66 / 450	39
Against all			635,199	2.45	2.81
Invalid ballot papers			963,462	3.72	0.63
Vacant (constituencies with no result)							3	3
Total			25,909,407	100		225	225	450
Registered voters/turnout			37,403,661	69.27	1.51
Source: Central Electoral Commission
Notes: ^ At the moment of the election the party temporally had name "Our Ukraine". Do not confuse with created in 2005 party Our Ukraine ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Movement of Ukraine, Reforms and Order Party, "National Front" Alliance (a part of which Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists was), "Together" alliance (a part of which Liberal Party of Ukraine was), Forward, Ukraine! and Republican Christian Party in the previous election ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Democratic Party, Agrarian Party of Ukraine and Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine in the previous election ^ At the previous election ran as a part of Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance ^ Result is compared to the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine ^ Result is compared to the combined totals of Social Liberal Association and "European Choice of Ukraine" alliances in the previous election ^ Result is compared to the Bloc of Democratic Parties — NEP ^ Result is compared to the Union party ^ An abbreviation that is the same as Ukrainian word for Wisent or Belarusian bison ^ In the previous election the party ran in the Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance ^ Did not participate in party voting, but only in single-member constituencies

The final election results differed greatly from the final opinion poll.^[17] The 2002 parliamentary elections were the first that substantially reduced fragmentation of the Verkhovna Rada and laid the groundwork for consolidation of political views in the parliament.

Yushchenko's Our Ukraine gathered most of its support from western and central regions of Ukraine, including the city of Kiev. The Communist Party received most of its votes from eastern and southern regions, as well as from Crimea. For United Ukraine block, which included Victor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, got most of its votes from eastern regions of Ukraine. Donetsk Oblast was the stronghold of the block, where it received more than twice the number of votes (36.83%) compared to the next highest supporting region: Sumy Oblast with 17.05% of the region's voters. Yulia Tymoshenko's block's support came predominantly from western regions, while the Socialists were most supported in the central regions. While the Tymoshenko block received more of the national vote compared to the Socialist Party, it did not gain a plurality in any of the regions, while the Socialist Party managed to secure plurality of votes in Poltava Oblast with 22.05%.

Faction changes after 2002 election

After the election, several MPs left their parties to join another others.^[18]

e • d Faction changes after the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002 (main parties and alliances)
Parties and alliances	Number of seats on 15 May 2002	Number of seats on 19 October 2002	Number of seats on 2 January 2003	Number of seats on 16 September 2005
Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine	119	110	102	45	74 seats
Communist Party of Ukraine	64	61	60	56	8 seats
For United Ukraine	175	Disbanded	Disbanded	Disbanded	175 seats
Electoral Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko	23	20	18	40	17 seats
Socialist Party of Ukraine	22	21	20	26	4 seats
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine	31	38	40	20	11 seats
Source: Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} ISBN 0-300-09545-7 & Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West by Andrej Lushnycky and Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 303911607X & Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification by Olexiy Haran, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, October 2002

By October 2002 the For United Ukraine faction had broken down in 8 new parliamentary factions.^[19]

References

^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976
ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1991

^ ^a^b Ukraine:Treatment of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (SDPU); relationship with the National Salvation Forum (FNB); treatment of FNB members, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada via UNHCR (14 August 2003)

^ Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften) by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010,
ISBN 90-5629-631-0 (page 93)

^ Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg (Editor), Lutz Hoffmann, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999,
ISBN 3790811890/
ISBN 978-3790811896 (page 184)

^ For One Ukraine

^ Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)

^ Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko

^ Bloc of Nataliya Vitrenko

^ Women for Future

^ Team of Winter Generation

^ (in Ukrainian) "За ЄдУ" отримує свої 14%. У відповідному exit-poll (ZaEdU is receiving its 14%. In the respective exit-poll). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 31, 2002

^ ^a^b (in Ukrainian) Вибори-2002: остаточний прогноз (Elections-2002: the final forecast). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002

^ ^a^b Рейтинги переможців. Без табу (Ratings of victors. No taboo). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 27, 2002

^ Тимошенко виграла суд у Азарова (Tymoshenko won case against Azarov). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002

^ Вбито кандидата в депутати від СДПУ(О) (A parliamentary candidate from SDPU (u) was killed). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 30, 2002

^ Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)

^ Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005,
ISBN 0-300-09545-7

^ Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification by Olexiy Haran, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, October 2002

External links

Central Election Commission of Ukraine

Relatively in-depth analysis of the election GlobalSecurity.org

[17] At the moment of the election the party temporally had name "Our Ukraine". Do not confuse with created in 2005 party Our Ukraine

[18] Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Movement of Ukraine, Reforms and Order Party, "National Front" Alliance (a part of which Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists was),
"Together" alliance (a part of which Liberal Party of Ukraine was), Forward, Ukraine! and Republican Christian Party in the previous election

[19] Result is compared to the combined totals of People's Democratic Party, Agrarian Party of Ukraine and Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine in the previous election

[20] At the previous election ran as a part of Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance

[21] Result is compared to the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

[22] Result is compared to the combined totals of Social Liberal Association and "European Choice of Ukraine" alliances in the previous election

[23] Result is compared to the Bloc of Democratic Parties — NEP

[24] Result is compared to the Union party

[25] An abbreviation that is the same as Ukrainian word for Wisent or Belarusian bison

[26] In the previous election the party ran in the Socialist Party – Peasant Party electoral alliance

[27] Did not participate in party voting, but only in single-member constituencies

[NS-1] Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1976
ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[2] Nohlen & Stöver, p1991

[ImmigrationBC-3] Ukraine:Treatment of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (SDPU); relationship with the National Salvation Forum (FNB); treatment of FNB members, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada via UNHCR (14 August 2003)

[Ukrelectionsystem199820021994-4] Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften) by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010,
ISBN 90-5629-631-0 (page 93)

[5] Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg (Editor), Lutz Hoffmann, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999,
ISBN 3790811890/
ISBN 978-3790811896 (page 184)

[6] For One Ukraine

[7] Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)

[8] Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko

[9] Bloc of Nataliya Vitrenko

[10] Women for Future

[11] Team of Winter Generation

[12] (in Ukrainian) "За ЄдУ" отримує свої 14%. У відповідному exit-poll (ZaEdU is receiving its 14%. In the respective exit-poll). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 31, 2002

[last_forecast-13] (in Ukrainian) Вибори-2002: остаточний прогноз (Elections-2002: the final forecast). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002

[ratingofvictors-14] Рейтинги переможців. Без табу (Ratings of victors. No taboo). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 27, 2002

[15] Тимошенко виграла суд у Азарова (Tymoshenko won case against Azarov). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 29, 2002

[16] Вбито кандидата в депутати від СДПУ(О) (A parliamentary candidate from SDPU (u) was killed). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 30, 2002

[28] Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)

[29] Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005,
ISBN 0-300-09545-7

[30] Ukraine at the Crossroads: Velvet Revolution or Belarusification by Olexiy Haran, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, October 2002

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Faction changes after 2002 election

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