2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election

Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October 2019, the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament early on 21 May 2019 (a day after his inauguration), despite claims that he did not have the legal grounds to do this. After Zelenskyy issued the decree (calling early elections), a lawsuit was filed to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which sought to declare the decree unconstitutional and therefore illegal.[4][5] The court declared the decree to be legal on 20 June 2019.[2][6] The official reason why Zelenskyy dissolved parliament was "a lack of a government coalition".[7]

Following the 2014 parliamentary elections, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) party became the largest party, after securing 132 seats. On 21 November 2014, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, People's Front, Self Reliance, Fatherland and the Radical Party all signed a coalition agreement.[8] Arseniy Yatsenyuk became Prime Minister on 2 December 2014. The Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by separatists.[9] February 2016 saw the start of the fall of the Yatsenyuk cabinet after the economy minister Aivaras Abromavičius announced his resignation claiming the government did not have real commitment to fight corruption.[10] On 17 and 18 February 2016, the Fatherland and Self Reliance parties left the coalition; meaning that the coalition became 5 deputies short of the 226 needed.[11] On 14 April 2016, Volodymyr Groysman became the new Prime Minister and the Groysman government began with a new cabinet of ministers.[12] Due to the short period of time available to organize the 2019 parliamentary election, current Ukrainian public procurement laws were not followed and to bypass this, local election commissions will work under deferred payment.[4]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved the Verkhovna Rada shortly after his inauguration, May 2019.

Under current law 225 members of the Verkhovna Rada are elected by nationwide closed party-list proportional representation with 5% electoral election threshold and the other 225 seats elected in constituencies with a first-past-the-post electoral system in one round (candidate with the highest vote total wins).[13][14][15][16] 21 parties take part in the election in the nationwide party-list.[17] For the elections there was established a state financing for all political parties that received 2% support, but on 2 October 2019 that law was canceled.[18]

Out of 225 constituencies, 26 are suspended due to the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast by separatists (since April 2014).

Candidates had until 20 June to submit documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to register as candidates for the position of deputy of the Verkhovna Rada.[19] On 25 June 2019, the Central Election Commission ended its registration process.[17] It registered 5,845 candidates for the elections:[17] 3,171 candidates in the single-member constituencies and 2,674 candidates in the single nationwide constituency with 22 parties.[17][20]

Since 2014, various politicians have proposed to reform the electoral system to 100% party-list proportional representation with open lists.[13] President Zelenskyy is the main proponent.[21] The proposal is opposed by Yulia Tymoshenko.[22] A vote on the proposal (authored by the president) was supposed to take place on 22 May 2019, but members of parliament voted against including it in the agenda.[21][23]

Electoral ballot of the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, featuring 22 parties

List of registered parties[24][25]

Turnout in electoral districts

Turnout in regions

Results of party-list voting by electoral districts

Results of single-mandate constituencies

Party		Proportional			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Servant of the People	6,307,793	43.16	124	4,630,880	32.87	130	254	New
	Opposition Platform — For Life	1,908,111	13.06	37	987,832	7.01	6	43	New
	Batkivshchyna	1,196,303	8.19	24	686,734	4.87	2	26	+6
	European Solidarity	1,184,620	8.11	23	589,918	4.19	2	25	–106
	Holos	851,722	5.83	17	401,903	2.85	3	20	New
	Radical Party of Oleh Liashko	586,384	4.01	0	152,191	1.08	0	0	–22
	Strength and Honor	558,652	3.82	0	175,397	1.24	0	0	0
	Opposition Bloc	443,195	3.03	0	377,191	2.68	6	6	New
	Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman	352,934	2.42	0				0	New
	Party of Shariy	327,152	2.24	0	12,054	0.09	0	0	New
	Svoboda	315,568	2.16	0	452,373	3.21	1	1	–6
	Civil Position	153,225	1.05	0	103,044	0.73	0	0	0
	Party of Greens of Ukraine	96,659	0.66	0				0	0
	Self Reliance	91,596	0.63	0	135,297	0.96	1	1	–32
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine	75,509	0.52	0	96,139	0.68	0	0	New
	Movement of New Forces	67,740	0.46	0	7,683	0.05	0	0	New
	Power of the People	27,984	0.19	0	49,117	0.35	0	0	0
	Power of Law	20,340	0.14	0				0	New
	Patriot	16,123	0.11	0	18,015	0.13	0	0	New
	Social Justice	15,967	0.11	0	2,615	0.02	0	0	New
	Independence	7,970	0.05	0				0	New
	Torch	7,739	0.05	0				0	New
	United Centre				44,485	0.32	1	1	New
	People's Movement of Ukraine				41,482	0.29	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform				22,279	0.16	0	0	–
	Bila Tserkva Together				20,277	0.14	1	1	New
	Democratic Axis				13,613	0.10	0	0	New
	Civil Movement of Ukraine				12,037	0.09	0	0	0
	Joint Action				7,071	0.05	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Unity Party				6,355	0.05	0	0	New
	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists				5,318	0.04	0	0	0
	Right Sector				5,093	0.04	0	0	–1
	Our Land				4,709	0.03	0	0	New
	All-Ukrainian Union "Cherkashchany"				4,283	0.03	0	0	New
	Social and Political Platform of Nadiya Savchenko				3,949	0.03	0	0	New
	Party of Free Democrats				3,599	0.03	0	0	New
	Ukrainian Party				3,268	0.02	0	0	New
	Party of Pensioners of Ukraine				3,262	0.02	0	0	0
	Ukraine the Glorious				3,064	0.02	0	0	0
	Native City				2,376	0.02	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Ukraine				1,990	0.01	0	0	0
	Liberty				1,802	0.01	0	0	0
	Community and Law				1,527	0.01	0	0	New
	Darth Vader Bloc				1,164	0.01	0	0	New
	Development				903	0.01	0	0	New
	Republican Christian Party				902	0.01	0	0	New
	Aware Nation				766	0.01	0	0	New
	Real Action				764	0.01	0	0	New
	Party of Local Self-Governance				520	0.00	0	0	New
	Meritocratic Party of Ukraine				517	0.00	0	0	0
	Trust the Deeds				428	0.00	0	0	New
	Gypsy Party of Ukraine				388	0.00	0	0	New
	Internet Party of Ukraine				370	0.00	0	0	0
	Bdzhola				222	0.00	0	0	New
	People's Truth				206	0.00	0	0	New
	Student Party of Ukraine				138	0.00	0	0	New
	Pirate Party of Ukraine				133	0.00	0	0	New
	Independents				4,992,514	35.43	46	46	–51
Vacant							26	26	–
Total		14,613,286	100.00	225	14,090,157	100.00	225	450	0
Valid votes		14,613,286	99.01
Invalid/blank votes		146,262	0.99
Total votes		14,759,548	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		29,973,739	49.24
Source: CLEA, CVK

The 46 independents included four members of Our Land, three members of UKROP, one member of Agrarian Party of Ukraine and one member of the For Specific Cases party, who had not been nominated by their parties.

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