The Peasant Party of Ukraine (, Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny, SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992 as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.Establishment of national statehood. History of Ukraine
At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1994, the party obtained 2.74% of the votes and 19 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1998, it gained in coalition with the Socialist Party of Ukraine 8.56% of the vote and 35 seats.Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe The SelPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada consisted of 14 deputies. After the creation of the new parliamentary faction Solidarity in 2000, a lot of deputies of the party moved to this new faction.Ukrainian Political Update by Taras Kuzio and Alex Frishberg, Frishberg & Partners, 21 February 2008 (page 22)
The following elections were not successful for the party. In the elections of 2002 the party won 0.37% of the votes, in 2006 0.31% and in the 2007 elections the party did not participate.
In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of Viktor Yanukovych.
In 2011, the party decided to join the Socialist Party of Ukraine.Information Agency UNIAN On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the Justice Ministry.Ukraine Business Online
The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
In 2019, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.
Election results + Verkhovna Rada Year Party-list Constituency/total Overall seats won Seat change Government Notes Popular vote % Seats/total1994794,6142.93%19/338 1919982,273,7888.83%10/2252/220 7As part of Socialist Party – Peasant Party bloc200298,4280.39%0/2250/225 12200679,1600.32%0/450 02007Did not participate2012Did not participate2014Did not participate2019Did not participate
References
External links Official website