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Our Ukraine bloc logo.

The Our Ukraine Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Наша Україна, Blok Nasha Ukrayina, NU) is an electoral alliance active in Ukraine, associated with President Viktor Yushchenko. Since 2005, the bloc has been dominated by a core consisting of the People's Union Our Ukraine party and five smaller partner parties.

The Our Ukraine Bloc is most closely associated with the Orange Revolution and continues to use orange as its political colour.

1 Current Members
2 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002
3 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
4 External link

[edit] Current Members

People's Union Our Ukraine (Narodnyi Soyuz Nasha Ukrayina)
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (Partiya Promislovtsiv i Pidpryjemtsiv Ukrayiny)
People's Movement of Ukraine (Narodniy Rukh Ukrayiny)
Christian Democratic Union (Khristiyans'ko-Demokratichnyj Soyuz)
Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly (Ukrayins'ka Respublikanska Partiya Sobor)
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (Kongress Ukrayinskych Natsionalistiv)

[edit] Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

Main article: Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

At the 2002 legislative elections, won 23.6% of the popular vote and 112 out of 450 seats. It was the first time when Communists failed to take the first place in vote. The alliance included the following parties:

Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (Kongress Ukrajins'kykh Nacionalistiv)
Liberal Party of Ukraine (Liberal'na Partija Ukrajiny)
Youth Party of Ukraine (Molodizna Partija Ukrajiny)
People's Movement of Ukraine (Narodnyi Rukh Ukrajiny)
Party of Christian-Popular Union (Partija Chrystyjans'ko-Narodnyj Soyuz)
Reforms and Order Party (Partija Reformy i Porjadok)
Republican Christian Party (Respublikans'ka Chrystyjans'ka Partija)
Solidarity (Solidarnist')
Ukrainian People's Movement (Ukrajins'kyj Narodnyj Rukh)
Forward, Ukraine! (Vpered, Ukrajino!)

[edit] Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006

A map showing the results of the Our Ukraine party in Ukraine's oblasts during the parliamentary election.

The "Our Ukraine" bloc was soundly defeated in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election with only 13,94% of the recorded vote came in third place behind Yulia Tymoshenko (22%) and Party of Regions (33%). It won 81 out of 450 seats.

Following the elections there has been calls for Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko who was closely aligned and spokesperson for Our Ukraine during the March Parliamentary election to resign from Our Ukraine and to stand independent.