People's Party ? | |
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Leader | Volodymyr Lytvyn |
Founded | 1996 |
Ideology | Agrarianism[1] |
Political position | |
International affiliation | None |
Colours | Blue |
Verkhovna Rada | |
Regions (2010) | |
Website | |
narodna | |
The People's Party (Ukrainian: ? ; Narodna Partiya) is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: ? ?).[3] The party is led by Volodymyr Lytvyn.[3] In September 2011 he claimed that his party was only surpassed in membership by the Party of Regions and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.[4]
The party won 2 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5] In the 2014 parliamentary election the party won no parliamentary seats.[6][7]
During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party gained 3,68% of the popular vote,[3] the party won 2 (single-mandate constituency) seats.
At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party was part of the For United Ukraine alliance.[3] At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 the party was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats.[3] In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Lytvyn Bloc alliance,[3] that won 20 out of 450 seats.
In November 2010 the Bloc of Lytvyn faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) was renamed People's Party faction.[8]
In the 2010 local elections the party won representative in 20 of the 24 regional parliaments, it did not win seats in the Supreme Council of Crimea.[9]
In August 2011 party leader Lytvyn stated that his People's Party will merge with fellow Ukrainian party Party of Regions.[10] Earlier that month Strong Ukraine had announced the same move.[4][11] But Mid-December 2011 Lytvyn stated that People's Party will participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections independently.[12] In these election the party did not run on the nationwide proportional party-list but it did win 2 constituencies (it had competed in 58 constituencies[13]), one won by Lytvyn and the other one by Serhiy Hrynyvetsky,[14] and thus parliamentary representation.[15] Hrynyvetsky joined the faction of Party of Regions in December 2012, while Lytvyn did not join any faction.[16]
In the 2014 parliamentary election the party did not compete on the nationwide party list and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats.[6][7] Lytvyn was re-elected into parliament as an independent candidate in electoral district 65.[17]
Year | Popular vote | % of popular vote | Overall seats won | Seat change | Government |
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1998 | 978,330 | 3.8% | ![]() |
support | |
2002 | For United Ukraine bloc | ![]() |
coalition government | ||
2006 | Lytvyn Bloc | ![]() |
N/A | ||
2007 | Lytvyn Bloc | ![]() |
opposition | ||
2012 | ![]() |
support |