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. Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes. 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), 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), led by Anatoliy Kinakh.
- People's Democratic Party (Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya), led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
- Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina), led by Serhiy Tyhypko.
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