Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

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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 Volodymyr Lytvyn Viktor Yushchenko Petro Symonenko Party For United Ukraine! Our Ukraine Bloc Communist Party Leader since 2001 2002 1993 Seats won 121 112 65 Seat change 83 59 58 Percentage 11.8% 23.6% 20% Swing 2.2 pp 4.2 pp 4.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Viktor Medvedchuk Yulia Tymoshenko Oleksandr Moroz Party SDPU (united) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Socialist Party Leader since 1998 2001 1991 Seats won 27 22 22 Seat change 9 New 5 Percentage 6.3% 7.3% 6.9% Swing 2.3 pp New —
Results of the 2002 parliamentary election.
Chairman of Parliament before election Ivan Plyushch NDPU Elected Chairman of Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn For United Ukraine!

Ivan Plyushch
NDPU

Volodymyr Lytvyn
For United Ukraine!

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted at the time that there were physical assaults and harassment of candidates and campaign workers associated with opposition political parties prior to the March election. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc complained of campaign related violations including "an informal 'media blackout,' [and] negatively slanted coverage".

Half of the deputies to Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies. In order to gain any (proportional) seats in Verkhovna Rada a party needed to receive at least 4% of the popular vote.

On March 29, 2002 the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko won a case on defamation against the Chairman of the Tax Administration of Ukraine Mykola Azarov. The Shevchenkivsky District Court of the Kiev city prohibited the Tax Administration of Ukraine to spread lies against the opposition electoral bloc.

Late at night on March 29, 2002 was mortally wounded a vice-governor of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Mykola Shkriblyak. Shkriblyak was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) and he ran for the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) at the 90th electoral district. He died later in a local hospital.