Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

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The second Ukrainian parliamentary election after the collapse of Soviet Union took place on 29 March 1998. In comparison to the first parliament election this time half of 450 parliament seats were filled by single-seat majority winners in 225 territorial election regions, and the other half were split among political parties and blocks, which received at least 4% popular vote.

[edit] Election results

ed Summary of the 29 March 1998 Ukrainian Supreme Council election results
Parties and blocks
(30 parties and blocks participated in the election; 8 of them passed the required 4% barrier)
Popular vote Proportional seats Individual seats Total seats
Communist Party of Ukraine 24.7% 84 37 121
People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) 9.4% 32 14 46
Socialist Party of Ukraine/Peasants' Party of Ukraine bloc 8.6% 29 5 34
Party of Greens of Ukraine 5.3% 19 0 19
People's Democratic Party of Ukraine 5.0% 17 11 28
Hromada 4.7% 16 8 24
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine 4.0% 14 2 16
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine 4.0% 14 3 17
Other Parties/Not affiliated - - 145 145
Total 225 225 450
Source: Central Election Commission of Ukraine

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