1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998. The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 seats.

29 March 1998

All 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada
226 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

70.78% ( 5.03 pp)

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
KPU	Petro Symonenko	25.44	121	+35
Rukh	Vyacheslav Chornovil	9.70	46	+26
SPU–SelPU	Oleksandr Moroz	8.83	34	+1
Party of Greens	Vitaliy Kononov	5.61	19	New
NDP	Anatoliy Matviyenko	5.17	28	+24
Hromada	Pavlo Lazarenko	4.82	24	New
PSPU	Nataliya Vitrenko	4.18	16	New
SDPU(o)	Leonid Kravchuk	4.14	17	New
APU	Kateryna Vashchuk	3.80	9	New
PRP	Serhiy Sobolyev	3.23	3	New
Labour Ukraine	Ivan Herasymov	3.16	1	−1
National Front	Levko Lukyanenko	2.80	5	−10
LPU–PP	Volodymyr Shcherban	1.95	1	−3
CDU–UCDP	Oleksandr Bazylyuk	1.79	2	+2
CDPU	Vitaly Zhuravsky	1.34	2	+1
DPU–PEV	Volodymyr Yavorivsky	1.27	1	−1
Viche–MBR	Volodymyr Hrynyov	0.94	1	+1
PRVU	Volodymyr Rybak	0.94	2	New
Soyuz	Lev Myrymsʹkyy	0.72	1	New
SNPU–DSU	Yaroslav Andrushkiv	0.16	1	+1
Independents	–	–	111	−57

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Results by region

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada before	Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada after
Oleksandr Moroz SPU–SelPU	Oleksandr Tkachenko SPU–SelPU

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After the election votes in five electoral districts had too many irregularities to declare a winner and the parliament was five members short of 450.

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