The Ukrainian Republican Party () is a political party in Ukraine. Created on 5 November 1990 Українська республіканська партія "Собор", Database DATA by the Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR,List of registered parties in Ukraine it was the first formal political party besides the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to be officially registered, though it had been founded in April 1990 on the basis of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. In April 2002, the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor". It then reformed in 2006.
History In November 1976, Ukrainian community groups were established to promote the implementation of the Helsinki agreements. Almost all members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group were subsequently repressed; four of them (Vasyl Stus, Yuriy Lytvyn, Oleksa Tykhy, and Valeriy Marchenko) died in Soviet camps (Gulag).
In March 1988, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UHU) was formed. Since 1989, the UHU has engaged in open propaganda promoting Ukrainian independence.
Between 29–30 April 1990, the Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) was established out of the UHU. The party was registered on 5 November 1990 by the Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR as the first political party in Ukraine.
A 1992 split in the party resulted in the creation of the rival Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party (UKRP), led by Stepan Khmara.Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, (page 31)
In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the URP core party obtained nine seats, initially adding three more by the end of the year.
During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party was part (together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party) of the Election Bloc "National Front" (), which won 2.71% of the national vote and six (constituency) seats.State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia by Verena Fritz, Central European University Press, 2008, (page 353) Results in consistencies, Central Election Commission of Ukraine (1998) In January 2001, the "National Front" parliamentary faction had grown to 17 deputies.
After being part of the National Salvation CommitteeAbout Tymoshenko , Official website of Yulia TymoshenkoEuropa World Year Book 2, Routledge, 2004, , page 4295, the party became part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc alliance during the Ukrainian 2002 parliamentary elections. Виборчий блок політичних партій "Виборчий блок Юлії Тимошенко", Central Election Commission of Ukraine (22 December 2001) Вони – Блок Юлії Тимошенко, Ukrayinska Pravda (25 January 2002) On 21 April 2002, the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor". Злилися УРП і "Собор": Матвієнко - голова партії, Лук'яненко - голова ради старійшин, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 April 2002)
In May 2006, Levko Lukianenko tried to reestablish URP after URP Sobor switched to Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc; the new party became known as the URP of Lukyanenko and was registered in 2006. In November 2010, Lukyanenko was elected leader of the Ukrainian Republican Party. Левко Лук'яненко знову очолив партію, Ukrainska Pravda (25 November 2010)
Reformation The Ukrainian Republican Party reregistered in December 2006 Українська республіканська партія, Database DATA as Ukrainian Republican Party Lukyanenko (). The party was led by political veteran Levko Lukyanenko (1928–2018). The party did not participate in the 2007 parliamentary election or the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election (nationwide proportional party-list system); Information on the registration of electoral lists of candidates, Central Election Commission of Ukraine instead, three party members tried to win a seat in three of the 225 local single-member districts. None of the party's candidates won.Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post (9 November 2012)
The party participated in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election in five single-member districts, but again did not win seats.Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine The party has not taken part in national elections since 2012.
The party occupies a few seats in local and oblast councils. Results of the 2010 local elections preliminary data on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010) На довиборах в Івано-Франківську облраду перемогли "Батьківщина" і "Свобода", Ukrayinska Pravda (28 January 2013) In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained four deputies (0.01% of all available mandates).
Election results Local elections(year links to election page)YearVotes%MandatesNotes 2010 2013 by-election in Nadvirna electoral district (No.25) 2020
Parliamentary since 2002(year links to election page)YearVotes%MandatesNotes 1994 1998 part of National Front bloc 2002 part of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 2012 Constituency participation only 2014 Constituency participation only
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