Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

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All 450 seats of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 226 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Petro Symonenko Vyacheslav Chornovil Oleksandr Moroz Party Communist Party People's Movement SPU-SelPU Leader since 1993 1989 1991 Seats won 122 46 35 Percentage 24.7% 9.4% 8.6%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Anatoliy Matviyenko Pavlo Lazarenko Vitaliy Kononov Party NDPU Hromada Greens Leader since 1996 1994 1990 Seats won 27 23 19 Percentage 5% 4.7% 5.4%
Results of the 1998 parliamentary election.
Chairman of Parliament before election Oleksandr Moroz Socialist Party Elected Chairman of Parliament Oleksandr Tkachenko Peasants Party

Oleksandr Moroz
Socialist Party

Oleksandr Tkachenko
Peasants Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998. The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 seats.

After the election votes in five electoral districts had too many irregularities to declare a winner and the parliament was five members short of 450.

In comparison to the first parliamentary election, this time half of 450 parliament seats were filled by single-seat majority winners in 225 electoral regions (constituencies), and the other half were split among political parties and blocks that received at least 4% of the popular vote.

The Communist Party of Ukraine was victorious in 18 regions including the city of Kiev, while in three other regions the party finished in second place. The People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) won in five regions, all of them located in Western Ukraine and was a strong runner-up in three others, mostly in the west and Kiev. The electoral block of Socialists and Peasants was able to secure a victory in only two regions, however it did finish strong in seven other regions across central Ukraine. The new and rising party of Hromada won the Dnipropetrovsk Region, while the Social-Democratic Party of Ukraine managed to secure the Zakarpattia Region.

Notable and strong runners up were the Party of Greens, the People's Democratic Party, the Progressive Socialist Party, the People's Party, Working Ukraine, the National Front and Our Ukraine.

The size of the factions created in parliament after the election fluctuated. By January 2000 the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine and Hromada did not have any deputies; while Peasant Party of Ukraine had deputies only in 1999. All these factions where disbanded for lack of members.