Democratic Party of Ukraine
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Democratic Party of Ukraine
Демократична партія України |
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| Leader | Svitlana Kostyuk |
| Founder | Yuriy Badzyo |
| Founded | December 16, 1990 |
| Split from | People's Movement of Ukraine |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Kiev City Council |
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The Democratic Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Демократична партія України; Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayni) is a political party in Ukraine registered in 1991. Until 2006 it had a parliamentary representation, but after associating itself with the People's Democratic Party, the Democratic Party disappeared from political arena.
The party did not participate in either the 2012 nor the 2014 parliamentary elections.
The Democratic Party of Ukraine is one of the oldest political institutions of Ukraine. The Democratic Party was founded in 1990 by a group of Ukrainian dissidents.
In the 1994 parliamentary election, the party won 2 seats. In the 1998 elections, the party was party of the Electoral bloc NEP with the Party of Economic Revival, the combination won 1,22% of the national vote; the party gained 1 (single-mandate constituency) seat. In a union with the Democratic Union the party gained 4 constituency seats during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002.
In the 2006 elections, the party took part in the alliance Block of People's Democratic Parties but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (winning only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party failed as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset to win parliamentary representation.
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