For United Ukraine

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For United Ukraine!
За Єдину Україну!
Leader Volodymyr Lytvyn[1]
Founded December 15, 2001
Headquarters Kiev, Ukraine
Political Ideology Pro-Presidential, Regionalism, Pan-Slavism, Russophilia, Parliamentarism
Political Position Centre
International Affiliation none
Colours Blue
Website www.zaedu.org.ua
See also Politics of Ukraine

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Elections in Ukraine

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For United Ukraine (Ukrainian: «За Єдину Україну!»; Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to partake in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.

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[edit] 2002 parliamentary election

In the parliamentary election, the party was pro-presidential, supporting the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. At the election, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.

The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:

[edit] Since the election

The alliance is now defunct as Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions took part in the 2006 elections by itself and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine went as part of the pro-presidential electoral bloc Our Ukraine.

Labour Ukraine later merged into the Party of Regions in mid-2007. At the early parliamentary elections parliamentary held on September 30, 2007, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine participated in the elections together with the Party of Regions.[6][7]

The People's Party (formerly Agrarian Party of Ukraine) was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats at the 2006 parliamentary elections. During the parliamentary elections 2007 it was part of the Lytvyn's Bloc that won 20 out of 450 seats.[8]

In the 2007 elections, the People's Democratic Party went as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset and again failed to win parliamentary representation.

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