List of political parties in Ukraine

This is a list of political parties in Ukraine, both past and present. On 1 January 2020 349 political parties were officially registered.[1] Most of these parties do not actively take part in political life.[1] 2014, 2015 and 2016 were peak years in the registration of new parties.[1]

For more detailed information about Ukraine's political party landscape, see Political parties in Ukraine.
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It is possible for 15 or more deputies to form a parliamentary faction (a lawmaker can join only one faction; the chairman and his two assistants cannot head factions of deputies).[2][3][4][5][6]

Current parliamentary factions

Government party (246)

  •   Servant of the People (246)

Government support (44)

Opposition (133)

Vacant seats (27)

Parliamentary factions and parties following the 2014 election
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total Vacant
Petro Poroshenko Bloc People's Front Opposition Bloc Self Reliance Radical Party Fatherland Revival[a 1] People's Will[a 2][a 3] Non-affiliated[a 4]
End of previous convocation DNP[a 5] DNP[a 6] DNP[a 7] DNP 1 86 41 35 93 445 5
Seats won in 2014 election[7] 132 82 29 33 22 19 DNP DNP 96 423 27
November 27, 2014
(first session)[15][11]		 145 83 40 32 19 20 38 418 32
December 2, 2014[16][11] 147 420 30
February 5, 2015[11] 150 82 31 21 18 42 422 28
June 24, 2015[11] 144 81 43 22 19 422 28
October 22, 2015[11] 142 26 20 48 422 28
February 13, 2016[11] 136 23 53 422 28
April 11, 2016[11] 141 47 422 28
April 12, 2016[11] 145[a 8] 19 44 422 28
July 19, 2016[11] 142 42 422 28
September 21, 2016[11] 143 21 46 422 28
December 23, 2016[11][18] 142 20 24 18 48 422 28
September 10, 2017[11] 138 20 17 51 422 28
July 31, 2017[11] 135 25 24 19 55 422 28
November 22, 2018[11] 135 38 60 422 28
Latest voting share 32.7% 19.2% 10.2% 6.2% 4.7% 4.7% 6.2% 4.0% 12.1% 93.8% 6.2%
  1. Revival was briefly called Economic Development in 2014. It was also a parliamentary group like People's Will until 2015.
  2. People's Will is a parliamentary group. Parliamentary groups consist of non-partisan deputies or representatives of parties that did not overcome election threshold (i.e. Svoboda, Strong Ukraine, etc.).
  3. The People's Will deputy group in previous convocation was known as Sovereign European Ukraine.
  4. Parties that did not pass the 5% threshold of the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Svoboda (7 seats), Right Sector (1 seat), Strong Ukraine (1 seat), Volia (1 seat), and Zastup (1 seat) are part of non-affiliated.[7] After the 17 July 2016 constituency mid-term elections the parties UKROP and Our Land joined them.[8]
  5. 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list was filled by members of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), which did not participate in the 2014 election independently. UDAR participated in the 2012 election, consisting of a faction of 41 deputies in the previous convocation.[9][10][11]
  6. People's Front is a September 2014 split off from Fatherland; many current members of the People's Front were members of the Fatherland faction of the previous convocation.[12][13]
  7. The Opposition Bloc consists mainly of former members of former President Yanukovych's Party of Regions,[14] which formed the largest caucus after the 2012 election with 185 deputies, although after the removal of Yanukovych and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the caucus consisted of only 78 members.
  8. The addition of these four deputies made it possible for Petro Poroshenko Bloc and People's Front to form a government without additional parties.[17]

Banned parties

Former parliamentarian parties
Individual partiesyears in parliamentBlock association (years)
People's Movement of Ukraine1990–2014Our Ukraine Bloc (2002–2006)
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (2007–2012)
Fatherland-Unites Opposition (2012–2014)
Communist Party of Ukraine1994–2014
Party of Regions
(succeeded by Opposition Bloc)		1997–2014For United Ukraine (2002)
People's Party1998–2002
2007–2014		For United Ukraine (2002)
Lytvyn Bloc (2006–2014)
Union Party1998–2002
2012–2014
People's Self-Defense (also as Forward, Ukraine!)2002–2014Our Ukraine Bloc (2002–2006)
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (2007–2012)
Fatherland-Unites Opposition (2012–2014)
For Ukraine!2012–2014Fatherland-Unites Opposition (2012–2014)
Social Christian Party2012–2014Fatherland-Unites Opposition (2012–2014)
Civil Position2012–2014Fatherland-Unites Opposition (2012–2014)
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party2002 – 2012Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (2002–2012)
Ukrainian Platform "Assembly"2002 – 2006
2006 – 2012		Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (2002–2006)
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Our Ukraine) (2006–2012)
Our Ukraine2006 – 2012Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Our Ukraine) (2006–2012)
Solidarity (Ukraine)2002 – 2006Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (2002–2006)
Ukrainian People's Party2002 – 2006
2007 – 2012		Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (2002–2006)
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (2007–2012)
Republican Christian Party2002 – 2006Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (2002–2006)
Youth Party of Ukraine2002 – 2006Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (2002–2006)
Motherland Defenders Party2007 – 2012Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (2007–2012)
It's time!2007 – 2012Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (2007–2012)
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists1994 – 2002
2002 – 2007		National Front (1998–2002)
Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko (Our Ukraine) (2002–2007)
Ukrainian Republican Party1994 – 2002National Front (1998–2002)
Labour Party Ukraine2007 – 2012Bloc of Volodymyr Lytvyn (2007–2012)
Socialist Party of Ukraine
(preceded by Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union))		1994 – 2007Bloc of SPU-SelPU (1998–2002)
Peasant Party of Ukraine1994 – 2002Bloc of SPU-SelPU (1998–2002)
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs2002 – 2006
2006 – 2007		For United Ukraine (2002–2006)
Our Ukraine bloc (2006–2007)
People's Democratic Party1998 – 2006For United Ukraine (2002–2006)
Labour Ukraine2002 – 2006For United Ukraine (2002–2006)
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)1994 – 2006
Democratic Party of Ukraine1994 – 2006Bloc of DemPU-DemU (2002–2006)
Democratic Union2002 – 2006Bloc of DemPU-DemU (2002–2006)
Party of National Economic Development of Ukraine2002 – 2006
Ukrainian Marine Party2002 – 2006
Unity2002 – 2006Unity (2002–2006)
Social Democratic Union2002 – 2006Unity (2002–2006)
Young Ukraine2002 – 2006Unity (2002–2006)
Ukrainian Party of Justice - Union of Veterans, Handicapped, Chornobilians, Afghans2002 – 2006Unity (2002–2006)
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine1998 – 2002
Party of Greens of Ukraine1998 – 2002
Hromada1998 – 2002
Party "Union"1998 – 2002
Ukrainian National Assembly1994 – 1998
Party of Labor1994 – 1998
Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party1994 – 1998
Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine1994 – 1998
Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine1994 – 1998
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine1994 – 1998
Party of Economic Revival of Crimea1994 – 1998
Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)
(succeeded by Socialist Party of Ukraine)		1937 – 1994Bloc of Communists and Komsomol activists

A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name Reforms for the Future existed between 16 February 2011[19] and 15 December 2012.[20][21][22][11] A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name For Peace and Stability existed between 2 July 2014 and 27 November 2014.[23][15]

From 1998 – 2000 there was another parliamentary faction Labour Ukraine that existed without its political party until it was registered by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in June 2000.[24]

The Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) was prohibited in 1991, however its members were not excluded from the Ukrainian parliament. They formed a parliamentary faction of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. For the 1994 parliamentary elections however the ban on communist parties was lifted and there were two parties with similar ideologies running for parliament the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine that was reestablished in 1993.

Other parties

List of parties that did not make to the parliament of Ukraine or parties that are spin offs of former parliamentary factions.

Defunct Political Parties

Defunct Political alliances and blocs (1998–2012)

The idea of electoral blocs as a loose association of parties was introduced in 1998, however it did not become popular right away. The real success of electoral blocks came in 2002 when the Bloc of Victor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine" gained the most parliamentary seats. The electoral blocs system was liquidated in 2011[29] forcing registration of individual parties for the next 2012 parliamentary elections. The longest existing political blocs were Our Ukraine and Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko.

The association of parties however was transformed into a new concept of an "umbrella party" when several parties temporarily unite under such party that becomes a core party of informal electoral bloc.[10][30][31] Below is the list of official electoral blocs in 1998 - 2012 that led to creation of their own parliamentary factions.

Minor blocs

The following blocs did not form their parliamentary factions due to small number of their representatives.

Kyiv Oblast/City

Crimea

Ukrainian parties before 1991

See also

References
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  2. Rada Approves Cancellation Of Rule That Bans Deputies From Switching Factions Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, FINANCIAL (October 8, 2010)
  3. Update: Return to 1996 Constitution strengthens president, raises legal questions, Kyiv Post (October 1, 2010)
  4. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine, Kyiv Post (October 5, 2010)
  5. Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada decree No. 2222-IV: About the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. Adopted on December 8, 2004. (Ukrainian)
  6. Rada amends regulations of its activities, Kyiv Post (October 8, 2010)
  7. Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  8. (in Ukrainian)Data on vote counting at percincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 17.06.2016, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  9. (in Ukrainian) Block Poroshenko and kick off to the polls together, TVi (2 September 2014)
  10. After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions, Centre for Eastern Studies (7 November 2012)
  11. (in Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VIII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VIII convocation, Verkhovna Rada
  12. (in Ukrainian)Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
    Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014)
  13. Ukraine's united opposition discussing formation of single party, Kyiv Post (7 December 2012)(subscription required)
    Five factions, including Communist Party, registered in parliament, Kyiv Post (12 December 2012)(subscription required)
    Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
    Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev, Ukrinform (11 June 2013)
    (in Ukrainian) Sobolev heads "Batkivshchyna" in the Rada, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (20 March 2014)
    "Turchynov is summoned for interrogation to SBU today – BYUT". UNIAN. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
    "Batkivschyna to nominate Tymoshenko for presidency, Yatseniuk heads party's political council". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
    "BYT-Batkivschyna replaces its leader". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 7 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  14. Grytsenko, Oksana (September 21, 2014). "Allies of Yanukovych trying for parliament". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  15. (in Ukrainian) In Parliament created a faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2014)
  16. (in Ukrainian) Two more deputies entered the Poroshenko Bloc faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
  17. Ukraine: Lawmakers end session without new PM vote, BBC News (12 April 2016)
  18. (in Ukrainian) Savchenko was expelled from the faction "Fatherland", Ukrayinska Pravda (20 December 2016)
    (in Ukrainian) Deputy faction Mishchenko out PPB, Ukrayinska Pravda (23 December 2016)
  19. Individual deputies create Reforms for the Sake of Future group in parliament, Kyiv Post (February 16, 2011)
  20. Parliament of sixth convocation ends its work, Kyiv Post (6 December 2012)
  21. You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours, The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)
    Voting for the Verkhovna Rada regulations amendment
    Stenogram of November 6, 2012 session
    Політичний цирк: кнопкодави попалися на своїх звичках (Political circus: the "button-pushers" got caught on its habits). Ukrayinska Pravda.
  22. Yefremov: Regions Party faction already has 223 members, Kyiv Post (28 November 2012 2012)
    A difficult victory for the Party of Regions, Centre for Eastern Studies (31 October 2012)
  23. (in Ukrainian) , Ukrayinska Pravda (2 July 2014)
  24. (in Ukrainian) Політична партія „Трудова Україна“, Database DATA
    Explaining State Capture and State Capture Modes by Oleksiy Omelyanchuk, Central European University, 2001 (page 22)
    Trudova Ukraina elects a new chairman, Policy Documentation Center (27 November 2000)
    Explaining State Capture: Russia and Ukraine, Central European University (2001)
  25. Justice Ministry registers 179th party in Ukraine – For Fairness and Prosperity, Kyiv Post (May 14, 2010)
  26. Justice Ministry registers Your Ukraine Party, Kyiv Post (May 5, 2010)
  27. (in Ukrainian) Кириленко об'єднався з Яценюком, Ukrayinska Pravda (December 22, 2011)
  28. (in Ukrainian) Соцпартії не сподобалася назва "Об'єднані ліві і селяни", Gazeta.ua (December 16, 2011)
  29. Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (November 17, 2011)
  30. They Call Themselves the Opposition, The Ukrainian Week (31 August 2012)
  31. Voters head to polls in Ukraine, China Central Television (28 October 2012)
  32. Faction of Chernovetksyi’s Bloc stopped its existence, UNIAN (September 23, 2011)
    Chernovetsky Bloc in Kyiv City Council disbanded, Kyiv Post (September 22, 2011)
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  34. Kiev fails to end Crimea's ethnic tension Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Analytica (February 7, 2007)
    (in Ukrainian) У Януковича в Криму проблеми, Gazeta.ua (March 26, 2009)
    (in Ukrainian) Соратник Януковича розповів, за що його вигнали з партії, Ukrayinska Pravda (September 15, 2009)
    Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010)
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