Peasant Party of Ukraine

An agrarian and socialist political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992 as one of successors of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.

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. 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.

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. On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the Justice Ministry.

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

In 2019, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.

Chairperson: Serhii Dovhan (25 January 1992 – 17 July 2004), Tetiana Zasukha (17 July 2004 – November 2005), Serhii Dovhan (acting, 8 – 15 November 2005), Volodymyr Semianivskyi (acting, 23 November 2005 – December 2005), Oleksandr Yavorskyi (December 2005 – 30 June 2007), Lidiia Poriechkina (30 June 2007 – September 2007), Zenovii Kholodniuk (22 November 2008 – present)