For United Ukraine!
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For United Ukraine! (Template:Langx) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 31 March 2002.
History
In the parliamentary election, the party was supportive of authoritarian,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> incumbent President Leonid Kuchma, and opposed to the pro-democratic Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was described by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as a "party of power", including oligarchs, bureaucrats, and pro-Kuchma politicians, as an attempt to further increase Kuchma's power through constitutional and extra-constitutional means.<ref name="RFE">Template:Cite news</ref> At the election, the alliance won 11.77%<ref name="DATA">Template:In lang Політична партія „Трудова Україна“, Database DATA</ref> of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats, placing it in third behind Our Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes.<ref>Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)</ref> The alliance received many of its votes from Donetsk Oblast.<ref>State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Sarah Whitmore, Routledge, 2004, Template:ISBN/Template:ISBN</ref>
The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:<ref name=Vandenhoeck>Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, Template:ISBN (page 391)</ref><ref>Template:In lang 2002 Виборчий блок політичних партій "За Єдину Україну!", Database DATA</ref>
- Party of Regions (Template:Langx),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.
- Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Template:Langx), led by Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/>
- Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (Template:Langx, PPPU),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> led by Anatoliy Kinakh.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/>
- People's Democratic Party (Template:Langx),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/>
- Labour Ukraine (Template:Langx),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> led by Serhiy Tyhypko.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/>
Top-10 party list: Volodymyr Lytvyn (non-partisan), Anatoliy Kinakh (Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Volodymyr Boyko (Party of Regions), Viktor Skopenko (Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (People's Democratic Party), Serhiy Tihipko (Labour Ukraine), Volodymyr Semynozhenko (Party of Regions), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Heorhiy Kirpa (non-partisan).<ref>Meet the "Eda" faction. 150 deputies (Знакомьтесь, фракция "еды". 150 депутатов). Ukrayinska Pravda. 4 April 2002</ref>
| Party | PR | Constituency | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Seats | |||
| For United Ukraine (bloc) | 3,051,056 | 12.2 | 35 | 66 | 101 | New |
| Party of Regions | 6 | 25 | 31 | +29 | ||
| Agrarian Party of Ukraine | 7 | 15 | 22 | +20 | ||
| Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine | 5 | 1 | 6 | New | ||
| People's Democratic Party | 7 | 10 | 17 | -11 | ||
| Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina) | 2 | 2 | 4 | New | ||
| unaffiliated | 8 | 13 | 21 | - | ||
Since the election
The electoral bloc disintegrated in June 2002, following the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election.<ref>Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Post-Communist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave Template:Webarchive by Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto</ref>
See also
- United Russia, a pro-Putin political project created in 2001
- Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, main opponent