For United Ukraine!

For United Ukraine!
Leader Volodymyr Lytvyn[1]
Founded December 15, 2001 (2001-12-15)
Headquarters Kiev, Ukraine
Ideology Pro-presidential, regionalism, pan-Slavism, pro-Russia, parliamentarism
Political position Centre
International affiliation None
Colours Blue
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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 participate in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.

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%[2] of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes.[3] The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.[4]

The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:[5][6]

Top-10 party list: Volodymyr Lytvyn (unaffiliated), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Volodymyr Boiko (unaffiliated), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (People's Democratic Party), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Andriy Derkach (Trudova Ukrayina), Serhiy Bubka (Party of Regions), Mykola Onishchuk (PPPU), Mykhailo Zubets (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpov (People's Democratic Party).

Party PR Constituency Total
seats		 +/–
Votes % Seats Seats
For United Ukraine3,051,05612.23566101New
Party of Regions 62531+29
Agrarian Party of Ukraine 71522+20
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine 516New
People's Democratic Party 71017-11
Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina) 224New
unaffiliated 81321-

Since the election

The electoral bloc disintegrated after the 2002 election in June.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Leaders of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc". Za Yediny Ukrayinu! (in Ukrainian). 2002-11-24. Archived from the original on 2004-12-08. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  2. ↑ (Ukrainian) Політична партія „Трудова Україна“, Database DATA
  3. ↑ Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)
  4. ↑ State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Sarah Whitmore, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415331951/ISBN 978-0415331951
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 3-525-36912-3 (page 391)
  6. ↑ (Ukrainian) 2002 Виборчий блок політичних партій "За Єдину Україну!", Database DATA
  7. ↑ "Official informational server". Party of Regions. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
  8. ↑ "Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PIEU)". Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
  9. ↑ "Official website of the People's Democratic Party". People's Democratic Party (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
  10. ↑ "Informational portal TRUD.org.ua (now defunct)". Labour Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2006-06-12. Archived from the original on 2006-06-12. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
  11. ↑ Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Post-Communist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave by Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto

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