Social Christian Party (Ukraine)

The Social-Christian Party (Ukrainian: Соціально-християнська партія) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 2004[1]

The party participated independently in the 2006 parliamentary elections winning 0,09% of the votes and no seats.[1]

In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party failed again as part of the Christian Bloc to win parliamentary representation.[1]

The party was reported to merge with United Centre in October 2008;[2] however it continued to exist.[3]

The party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party "Fatherland", together with several other parties, during the 2012 parliamentary elections[4][5][6][7][8][9] During the election this list won 62 seats (25.55% of the votes) under the proportional party-list system and another 39 by winning 39 simple-majority constituencies; a total of 101 seats in Parliament.[10]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the participated in 1 constituency; but its candidate lost and thus the party won no parliamentary seats.[11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 (Ukrainian) Соціально-Християнська Партія, Database DATA
  2. (Ukrainian)Соціально-Християнська партія України cамоліквідувалася, z i k (October 16, 2008)
  3. (Ukrainian)Зорян Шкіряк офіційно очолив Соціально-Християнську Партію, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (October 16, 2008)
  4. (Ukrainian) Соціально-християнська партія вирішила приєднатися до об'єднаної опозиції, Den (newspaper) (24 April 2012)
  5. Opposition to form single list to participate in parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (2 March 2012)
    (Ukrainian) "ФРОНТ ЗМІН" ІДЕ В РАДУ З "БАТЬКІВЩИНОЮ", Ukrayinska Pravda (7 April 2012)
    Yatseniuk wants to meet with Tymoshenko to discuss reunion of opposition, Kyiv Post (7 April 2012)
  6. (Ukrainian) Tymoshenko and Yatsenyuk united ("Тимошенко та Яценюк об'єдналися"), Ukrayinska Pravda (23 April 2012)
  7. Civil Position party joins Ukraine's united opposition, Kyiv Post (20 June 2012)
  8. Ukrainian opposition parties agree to form single list for 2012 elections, Kyiv Post (23 January 2012)
  9. Opposition to form single list to participate in parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (2 March 2012)
  10. (Ukrainian) Proportional votes & Constituency seats, Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine
    % of total seats, Ukrayinska Pravda
  11. Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament, Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  12. Political parties in the electoral process in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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