1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election

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All 450 seats in the Supreme Soviet 226 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	85% (first round) 79% (second round)[1]
Majority party Minority party   Leader Volodymyr Ivashko Ihor Yukhnovsky Party CPU Rukh Alliance Democratic Bloc Seats won 331 111 Seat change 119 New
Results by constituency
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet before election Platon Kostiuk CPU Elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Volodymyr Ivashko CPU

Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Ukrainian SSR on 4 March 1990, with runoffs in some seats held between 10 and 18 March. The elections were held to elect deputies to the republic's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Simultaneously, elections of oblast councils also took place in their respective administrative divisions.

They were the first relatively free elections held in the SSR,^[2] and the closest thing to a free election Ukraine had seen since the unfinished 1918 Constituent Assembly elections. Although the campaign was far from being clear and transparent, representatives of the Democratic Bloc were the first to provide a legal challenge to the authority of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR in parliament. A total of 442 National Deputies were elected – short of the 450 seat total, due to low voter turnout.

The parliamentary convocation that convened after the 1990 election declared the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991. Later on, an amendment to the official number of parliamentary convocations recognized this 12th convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR as the first convocation of the Parliament of the Ukrainian.