Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2014

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423 of 450 seats of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 226 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Yuri Lutsenko Arseniy Yatsenyuk Andriy Sadovyi Party Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front Self Reliance Last election New New New Seats won 132 82 33 Seat change New New New Percentage 21.8% 22.1% 11% Swing New New New   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Yuriy Boyko Oleh Lyashko Yulia Tymoshenko Party Opposition Bloc Radical Fatherland Last election New 1.1%, 1 seat 25.5%, 101 seats Seats won 29 22 19 Seat change New 21 82 Percentage 9.4% 7.4% 5.7% Swing New 6.4 pp 19.9 pp
Winning party in each constituency in party-list (above) and single-member voting (below)
Prime Minister before election Arseniy Yatsenyuk People's Front Prime Minister-designate Arseniy Yatsenyuk People's Front

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
People's Front

A snap election of the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.

Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election. The July breakup of ruling coalition gave him the right to dissolve the parliament, so on 25 August 2014 he announced the early election.

The voting was not provided in the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. The voting also did not reach significant parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because of the ongoing War in Donbass. Because of this, 27 out of the 450 seats in the 8th Verkhovna Rada remained unfilled.

This election can be called a realigning. Ruling in 2010-2014, the Party of Regions did not participate in this election, while its informal successor Opposition Bloc showed modest result with only 9.43%. For the first time since Ukrainian independence, the Communist Party of Ukraine gained no parliamentary representation. Four newly created parties got the highest support in this election: Petro Poroshenko Bloc (formed in July 2014 by Poroshenko's supporters), People's Front (split from Fatherland in August 2014), Self Reliance (registered in 2012) and Opposition Bloc (formed in September 2014 by a group of the former Party of Regions members).