REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 28 OCTOBER 2012
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Elections to the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council)
Source: Website of the Ukrainian Central Election Commission

Parties
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* KPU - Komunistychna Partiya Ukrainy (Communist Party of Ukraine)
* PR - Partiya Regioniv (Party of the Regions)
* RP - Radikalna Partiya (Radical Party)
* VOB - Vseukrainske Obednannya Batkivshchina (All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland)
* VOS - Vseukrainske Obednannya Svoboda (All-Ukrainian Union Freedom) 
* UDAR - Ukrainske Demokratichnii Alyans za Reformy (Democratic Alliance for 
   Reform) (The Ukranian word Udar means "Punch") 


The Rada has 450 members, of whom 225 are elected on a national proportional basis
(Seats 1), and 225 from single-member constituencies (Seats 2).

NATIONAL SUMMARY OF LIST VOTES AND SEATS
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Enrolled voters:                       35,800,129
Votes cast:                            20,759,472  58.0
Invalid votes:                            371,453  01.8
Valid votes:                           20,388,019  98.2
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                                                                Seats
Party                                  Votes       %             1    2     Total
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Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU)        2,687,269  13.2  +07.8    32    -    32  +05
Party of the Regions (PR)               6,116,746  30.0  -04.4    72  113   185  +10
Radical Party (RP)                        221,144  01.1            -    1     1  +01
All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland (VOB)    5,209,090  25.5  -05.2    62   39   101  -55
All-Ukrainian Union Freedom (VOS)       2,129,933  10.4  +09.7    25   12    37  +37
Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR)   2,847,979  14.0           34    6    40  +40
Others                                  1,175,858  05.8            -   49    49
Vacant                                                             -    5     5
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Total                                  20,388,019                225  225   450
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The vote for All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland is compared with the vote for the Juliya 
Tymoshenko Bloc in 2008.
The "others" were mostly independents. Most of them were in fact supporters of the 
Party of the Regions, making its real voting strength about 230 members.