Communist Party of Ukraine - Party's Electoral Results

Party's Electoral Results

At the parliamentary elections on 29 March 1998, the party gained 24.65% of the vote and 123 seats, becoming the largest party in Parliament. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 19.98% of the popular vote and 66 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. Since then the party has lost much support, particularly after the Orange Revolution. In the 2006 parliamentary election the party won 3.66% and 21 seats.

In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party won 5.39% of the popular vote and 27 out of 450 seats.

The party participated in the 2010 presidential election as part of the Election bloc of left and central left political forces.

On March 11, 2010 together with Bloc Lytvyn and Party of Regions the party joined the first Azarov Government

A May 2010 poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that the party had the greatest support among retirees (7%) and virtually no support among young people (in the 18-29 and 30-44 age groups), especially in western Ukraine.

In the 2010 local elections the party scored between 5% and 12% of the votes in all Ukrainian Oblasts except in Western Ukraine and Kiev Oblast where they almost had no voters.

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party won 13.18% of the national votes, and no constituencies, and thus 32 seats. The party did win about one and a half million votes compared with the results of the previous election.

• A map showing the results of the Communist Party of Ukraine (change in voter percentage from 2006) per region for the 2007 parliamentary election.

• A map showing the results of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the 2012 elections.