People's Party (Ukraine)

People's Party Народна партія
Leader	Volodymyr Lytvyn
Founded	1996
Ideology	Agrarianism[1]
Political position	Centre[1] to centre-left
Colours	Blue
Verkhovna Rada	0 / 450
Regions (2010)	136 / 3,056 [2]
Website
narodna.org.ua
Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections

The People's Party (Ukrainian: Народна партія, romanized: Narodna partiia) is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Аграрна партія України).[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] The party did not take part in national elections since 2012.[6][7][8]

History

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.[9]

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.[10]

In August 2011 party leader Lytvyn stated that his People's Party will merge with fellow Ukrainian party Party of Regions.[11] Earlier that month Strong Ukraine had announced the same move.[4][12] But Mid-December 2011 Lytvyn stated that People's Party will participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections independently.[13] 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[14]), one won by Lytvyn and the other one by Serhiy Hrynyvetsky,[15] and thus parliamentary representation.[16] Hrynyvetsky joined the faction of Party of Regions in December 2012, while Lytvyn did not join any faction.[17]

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.[8][7] Lytvyn was re-elected into parliament as an independent candidate in electoral district 65.[18]

Again the party did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6] In this election Volodymyr Lytvyn lost his parliamentary seat after losing his constituency.[19]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 13 deputies (0.03% of all available mandates).[20]

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Year	Popular vote	% of popular vote	Overall seats won	Seat change	Government
1998	978,330	3.8%	2 / 450	2	support
2002	For United Ukraine bloc		22 / 450	20	coalition government
2006	Lytvyn Bloc		0 / 450	22	N/A
2007	Lytvyn Bloc		20 / 450	20	opposition
2012			2 / 450	18	support

References

1. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2012). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
2. (in Ukrainian) Results of elections, Central Election Commission
3. (in Ukrainian) Народна Партія, Database DATA
4. Regions Party and People's Party holding consultations on unification, Kyiv Post (September 29, 2011)
5. Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
6. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
7. Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainian Television and Radio (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. Olszański, Tadeusz A. (16 October 2014), Before the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, OSW—Centre for Eastern Studies
9. Bloc of Lytvyn faction renamed, Kyiv Post (November 19, 2010)
10. (in Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
11. Azarov: We welcome other parties joining Regions Party, Kyiv Post (August 23, 2011)
12. Azarov: Regions Party teams up with Strong Ukraine, Kyiv Post (August 16, 2011)
13. (in Ukrainian) Литвин поведе Народну партію на вибори саму, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 December 2011)
14. (in Ukrainian) Candidates, RBC Ukraine
15. Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post (9 November 2012)
16. (in Ukrainian) Proportional votes Archived 2012-10-30 at the Wayback Machine & Constituency seats Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
17. (in Ukrainian) National deputies of Ukraine Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, Verkhovna Rada
18. Data on vote counting at percincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014 Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
    (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winners for the seat of the constituencies in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Archived 2015-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, RBK Ukraine
19. "На Житомирщине проигрывают Литвин и Пашинский" [In the Zhytomyr region, Lytvyn and Pashynskyi lose]. Ukrayinska Pravda (in Russian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
20. "Results of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections on the official web-server of the". Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 January 2021.

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