1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election
29 March 1998
All 450 seats to the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout70.78% ( 5.03 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Petro Symonenko Viacheslav Chornovil Oleksandr Moroz
Party KPU Rukh SPU–SelPU
Leader since 19 June 1993 4 December 1992 1 November 1997
Leader's seat Party list Party list Kyiv 92
Last election 86 seats, 13.57% 20 seats, 5.49% 33 seats, 6.23%
Seats won 121 46 34
Seat change 35 26 1
Popular vote 6,550,353 2,498,262 2,273,788
Percentage 25.44% (PR) 9.70% (PR) 8.83% (PR)
Swing 11.87% 4.21% 2.60%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Anatoliy Matviyenko Pavlo Lazarenko Vitaliy Kononov
Party NDP Hromada Party of Greens
Leader since 24 February 1996 22 March 1994 9 October 1992
Leader's seat Vinnytsia 17 Dnipropetrovsk 40 Party list
Last election New New 0 seats 0.27%
Seats won 28 24 19
Seat change New New 19
Popular vote 1,331,460 1,242,235 1,444,264
Percentage 5.17% (PR) 4.82% (PR) 5.61% (PR)
Swing New New 5.34%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
Leader Leonid Kravchuk Nataliya Vitrenko Kateryna Vashchuk
Party SDPU(o) PSPU Agrarian Party
Leader since January 1998 20 April 1996 March 1997
Leader's seat Party list Sumy 160 Volyn 20
Last election New New New
Seats won 17 16 9
Seat change New New New
Popular vote 1,066,113 1,075,118 978,330
Percentage 4.14% (PR) 4.18% (PR) 3.80% (PR)
Swing New New New
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before election

Oleksandr Moroz
SPU–SelPU

 Elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada

Oleksandr Tkachenko
SPU–SelPU

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.

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