For United Ukraine

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For United Ukraine! За Єдину Україну!




Leader	Volodymyr Lytvyn^[1]

Founded	December 15, 2001
Headquarters	Kiev, Ukraine

Political Ideology	Pro-Presidential, Regionalism, Pan-Slavism, Russophilia, Parliamentarism
Political Position	Centre
International Affiliation	none
Colours	Blue

Website	www.zaedu.org.ua

See also	Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections in Ukraine

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For United Ukraine (Ukrainian: «За Єдину Україну!»; Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to partake in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.

1 2002 parliamentary election
2 Since the election
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 2002 parliamentary election

In the parliamentary election, the party was pro-presidential, supporting the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. At the election, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.

The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:

Party of Regions (Partiya Rehioniv),^[2] led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.
Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ahrarna Partiya Ukrayiny), led by the Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (Partiya Promislovtsiv i Pidpryiemtsiv Ukrajiny),^[3] led by Anatoliy Kinakh.
People's Democratic Party (Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya),^[4] led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina),^[5] led by Serhiy Tyhipko.

[edit] Since the election

The alliance is now defunct as Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions took part in the 2006 elections by itself and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine went as part of the pro-presidential electoral bloc Our Ukraine.

Labour Ukraine later merged into the Party of Regions in mid-2007. At the early parliamentary elections parliamentary held on September 30, 2007, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine participated in the elections together with the Party of Regions.^[6]^[7]

The People's Party (formerly Agrarian Party of Ukraine) was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats at the 2006 parliamentary elections. During the parliamentary elections 2007 it was part of the Lytvyn's Bloc that won 20 out of 450 seats.^[8]

In the 2007 elections, the People's Democratic Party went as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset and again failed to win parliamentary representation.