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Ukrainian People's Party

Українська Народна Партія
Ukrainian People's Party Українська Народна Партія
Leader	Yuri Kostenko
Deputy Leaders	Olha Davyd; Oleksii Miroshnychenko
Founded	12 July 1999
Split from	People's Movement of Ukraine
Headquarters	Mechnykova 3, Kyiv
Youth wing	Ukrainian People's Youth
Ideology	Christian democracy; Ukrainian nationalism; Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-right
Colours	Blue; Yellow
Verkhovna Rada	0 / 450
Regions	19 / 43,122
Website
	www.unp.ua
	Politics of Ukraine; Political parties; Elections;

The Ukrainian People's Party (Ukrainian: Українська Народна Партія; Ukrains'ka Narodna Partiya) is a centre-right political party in Ukraine, registered on Old Year's Day in 1999, and known until 2003 as the Ukrainian People's Movement (Ukrainian: Український Народний Рух; Ukrajins'kyi Narodnyj Rukh).^[4]

History

The party was founded as a merger of separate local branches of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 30 March 2002, the Ukrainian National Movement was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine.^[4]

In January 2003 it changed the name to Ukrainian People's Party to avoid being confused with People's Movement of Ukraine, out of which it was originally split. Later that year, UNP on its first party congress under the new name, endorsed Viktor Yushchenko for the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.

In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch, which has not crossed the 3% threshold in that election, and would later be dissolved.^[4]

In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.^[4]

In the 2010 local elections the party won a few representative in regional parliaments.^[5]

The party announced it will be merged into Our Ukraine in December 2011.^[6] This process started mid-December 2011.^[6] It was the plan that the parties would be unificated in February 2012.^[6] But by February 2013 Ukrainian People's Party was still an independent party.^[7]

The party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party Our Ukraine in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists; this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.^[8]^[9] The party itself had competed in 34 constituencies and lost in all.^[10]^[11]

The party congress approved a merge with People's Movement of Ukraine in May 2013.^[12] However, a section of the party did not merge and continued the parties activities under the leadership of Oleksandr Ivanovych Klymenko.^[13]^[14]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the participated in 8 constituencies; but its candidates lost in all of them and thus the party won no parliamentary seats.^[15]^[16]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party saw a total of 30 members elected to any level of political office across Ukraine.^[3]

In June 2021, Yuri Kostenko was reelected as party leader.^[1]

Leadership

Date	Party leader
1999–2013	Yuri Kostenko
2013–2021	Oleksandr Klymenko
2021–present	Yuri Kostenko

Results

Verkhovna Rada

Year	Votes	Position	Seats won	+/-	Government
2002	With Our Ukraine Bloc	1st	11 / 450 ^[a]		Opposition (2002–2005)
					Coalition government (2005)
					Coalition government (2005–2006)
2006	With Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch	8th	0 / 450	11	Extra-parliamentary
2007	With Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc	3rd	5 / 450 ^[b]	5	Coalition government (2007–2010)
2007	With Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc	3rd	5 / 450 ^[b]	5	Opposition (2010–2012)
2012	Did not participate in the election^[c]		0 / 450	5	Extra-parliamentary
2014	Did not participate in the election^[d]		0 / 450	0	Extra-parliamentary
2019	Did not participate in the election		0 / 450	0	Extra-parliamentary

Gallery

Poster of the party reads: "Power to Ukrainians! We are Ukrainians! This is our land!" Lviv, 2007
Results of the 2006 elections
Former logo of the party (2012–2021)