Ukrainian Nationalism in Present Day Ukraine
Voters from Western Ukraine and Central Ukraine tend to vote for pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (now Batkivshchyna) as its frontrunners; UDAR replaced the Our Ukraine Bloc in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Our Ukraine, a major national democratic force in Ukrainian politics in the early 21st century met with total failure since the 2010 Ukrainian local elections. While in Eastern Ukraine and Southern Ukraine pro-Russian parties get the vote. Since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Fatherland and UDAR cooperate with the far more radical nationalistic All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda".
Till the 2009 Ternopil Oblast local election "Svoboda"'s and other radical nationalistic parties role in Ukrainian politics had been extremely marginal. In the 2012 parliamentary elections "Svoboda" came in fourth with with 10,44% (almost a fourteenfold of its votes compared with the 2007 parliamentary elections) of the national votes and 38 out of 450 seats.
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