At stake in this election:

• 450 seats in the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Leonid D. KUCHMA
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Anatoliy KINAKH
• Assembly: Ukraine has a unicameral Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) with 450 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
• The Prime Minister is appointed by the president with the approval of the parliament.
• In the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada), 225 members are allocated through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 5-year terms and 225 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms.

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Party: Our Ukraine
  • Leader: Viktor YUSHCHENKO
  • Seats won in this election: 112
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: For United Ukraine
  • Leader: Volodymyr LYTVYN
  • Seats won in this election: 101
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: Communist Party of Ukraine
  • Leader: Petro SYMONENKO
  • Seats won in this election: 65
  • Seats won in last election: 117
• Party: Socialist Party
  • Leader: Yuri MOROZ
  • Seats won in this election: 23
  • Seats won in last election: 17
• Bloc: Yuilaya TYMOSHENKO Opposition Bloc
  • Leader: Yuilaya TYMOSHENKO
  • Seats won in this election: 22
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: United Social Democratic Party
  • Leader: Viktor MEDVEDCHUK
  • Seats won in this election: 24
  • Seats won in last election: 13
• Party: Other Parties
  • Leader: N/A
  • Seats won in this election: 103
  • Seats won in last election: N/A

Last Parliamentary election:

• Parliamentary elections were last held on March 29, 1998.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 48,202,500 (2002)
• Registered Voters: 37,277,697 (March 2002)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 25,797,803 (2002)

·         Is Ukraine a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)

·         Has Ukraine ratified CEDAW: Yes (12 March 1981)

·         Gender Quota: No

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 24 (following the 2002 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: 81 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low (2014)

Disability Data:

·         Is Ukraine a signatory to CRPD: Yes (24 September 2008)

·         Has Ukraine ratified CRPD: Yes (4 February 2010)

·         Population with a disability: 7,230,375 (est.)