Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

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All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 226 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Petro Symonenko Vyacheslav Chornovil Oleksandr Moroz Party Communist Party People's Movement Socialist Party Leader since 19 June 1993 1989 26 October 1991 Last election reinstated Democratic Bloc reformed Seats won 86 20 14 Seat change New – New Popular vote 3,683,332 1,491,164 895,830 Percentage 13.6% 5.5% 3.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Serhiy Dovhan Levko Lukyanenko Slava Stetsko Party Peasants Party Republican Party Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Leader since 25 January 1992 29 April 1990 18 October 1992 Last election – Democratic Bloc – Seats won 19 8 5 Seat change New New New Popular vote 794,614 728,614 361,352 Percentage 2.9% 2.7% 1.3%
Results of the 1994 parliamentary election (inaccurate).
Chairman of Parliament before election Ivan Plyushch Independent Elected Chairman of Parliament Oleksandr Moroz Socialist Party

Ivan Plyushch
Independent

Oleksandr Moroz
Socialist Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 27 March 1994, with a second round between 2 and 10 April. However, 112 seats were remained unfilled, and a succession of by-elections were required in July, August, November and December 1994 and more in December 1995 and April 1996. Three hundred (300) seats or two thirds (2/3) of the parliament were required to be filled for the next convocation.

In what were the first elections held after Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of Ukraine emerged as the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 86 of the 338 seats decided in the first two rounds. This election was the result of a compromise between the President and the Verkhovna Rada, which was reached on 24 September 1993 because of a political crisis caused by mass protests and strikes particularly from students and miners. On that day, the Rada adopted a decree to organize parliamentary elections ahead of schedule, and ahead of scheduled presidential elections in June.

As in the previous this election took place according to the majoritarian electoral system in 450 electoral districts containing several precincts. Each region was assigned a proportion of districts depending on its population. Hence the most mandates were received by the more populated eastern regions of Ukraine, particularly the regions of Donets basin such as Donetsk Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

In order to be elected a candidate needed to obtain more than 50% of votes and in order for the election to be valid more than 50% of registered voters needed to vote. If no candidate obtained more than 50% in the first round, the top two candidates were listed on the ballot in the second round. In the second round the 50% rule was applied as well. Reelections were called in case if the 50% votes in the second round was not met.