Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

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The second Ukrainian parliamentary election after the collapse of Soviet Union took place on 29 March 1998. In comparison to the first parliament election this time half of 450 parliament seats were filled by single-seat majority winners in 225 territorial election regions, and the other half were split among political parties and blocks, which received at least 4% popular vote.

[edit] Election results

30 Parties and blocks participated in the election; 8 of them passed the required 4% barrier

Political Party or Block	Popular vote	Proportional seats	Individual seats	Total seats
Communist Party of Ukraine	24.7%	84	37	121
People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh)	9.4%	32	14	46
Socialist Party of Ukraine/Peasants' Party of Ukraine bloc	8.6%	29	5	34
Party of Greens of Ukraine	5.3%	19	0	19
People's Democratic Party of Ukraine	5.0%	17	11	28
Hromada	4.7%	16	8	24
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine	4.0%	14	2	16
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine	4.0%	14	3	17
Other Parties/Not affiliated	-	-	145	145
TOTAL	100%	225	225	450