Ukrainian People's Party

{{Infobox political party

| country = Ukraine

| name = Ukrainian People's Party

| native_name = Українська Народна Партія

| logo = Ukrainian People's Party 2021 logo.svg

| leader = Yuri Kostenko{{Cite web |url=https://www.unp.ua/unp/lider-partii.html |title=Yuri Kostenko – the leader of the Ukrainian People's Party | language=Ukrainian |publisher=Ukrainian People's Party |website=www.unp.ua |access-date=20 February 2022}}

| leader1_name = Olha Davyd
Oleksii Miroshnychenko

| leader1_title = Deputy Leaders

| foundation = {{start date|1999|12|31|df=y}}

| ideology = Christian democracy
Ukrainian nationalism
Pro-Europeanism

| youth_wing = Ukrainian People's Youth

| position = Centre-right{{Citation |first1=Olexiy |last1=Haran |first2=Petro |last2=Burkovsky |title=In the Aftermath of the Revolution: From Orange Victory to Sharing Power with Opponents |work=Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West |publisher=Peter Lang |year=2009 |page=86}}

| colours = {{color box|#1f79bf}} Blue
{{color box|#fcce02}} Yellow

| split = People's Movement of Ukraine

| colorcode = {{party color|Ukrainian People's Party}}

| seats1_title = Verkhovna Rada

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|450|{{party color|Ukrainian People's Party}}}}

| seats2_title = Regions{{Cite web|url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vm2020/pvm002pt001f01=695pt00_t001f01=695.html|title=Results of the 2020 local elections by party|publisher=Central Election Commission of Ukraine|access-date=25 June 2021|language=Ukrainian}}

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|19|43122|{{party color|Ukrainian People's Party}}}}

| headquarters = Mechnykova 3, Kyiv

| website = {{Official URL}}

| flag =

}}

The Ukrainian People's Party ({{langx|uk|Українська Народна Партія}}; {{lang|uk-Latn|Ukrains'ka Narodna Partiya}}) is a centre-right political party in Ukraine, registered on Old Year's Day in 1999, and known until 2003 as the Ukrainian People's Movement ({{langx|uk|Український Народний Рух}}; {{lang|uk-Latn|Ukrajins'kyi Narodnyj Rukh}}).{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.da-ta.com.ua/mon_mainnews/868.htm Українська Народна Партія], Database DATA

History

The party was founded as a merger of separate local branches of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 30 March 2002, the Ukrainian National Movement was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine.

In January 2003 it changed the name to Ukrainian People's Party to avoid being confused with People's Movement of Ukraine, out of which it was originally split. Later that year, UNP on its first party congress under the new name, endorsed Viktor Yushchenko for the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.

In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch, which has not crossed the 3% threshold in that election, and would later be dissolved.

In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.

In the 2010 local elections the party won a few representative in regional parliaments.{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2010/11/8/5552584/ Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps] by Ukrayinska Pravda (November 8, 2010)

The party announced it will be merged into Our Ukraine in December 2011. This process started mid-December 2011.{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2011/12/18/6846740/ "Наша Україна" й УНП почали об’єднання з Дніпропетровська], Ukrayinska Pravda (18 December 2011) It was the plan that the parties would be unificated in February 2012. But by February 2013 Ukrainian People's Party was still an independent party.{{in lang|uk}} [http://news.poltava.info/power/8987-unp-visunula-kandidata-do-poltavskoi-oblasnoi-radi УНП висунула кандидата до Полтавської обласної ради UNP candidate nominated to the Poltava Regional Council], Poltava-Info (11 February 2013)

The party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party Our Ukraine in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists; this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp300pt001f01=900.html Proportional votes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030190210/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp300pt001f01=900.html |date=2012-10-30 }} & [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp039pt001f01=900.html Constituency seats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105073259/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp039pt001f01%3D900.html |date=2012-11-05 }}, Central Election Commission of Ukraine{{Cite web|url=http://ukranews.com/uk/news/ukraine/2012/07/31/75903|title=НУ, УНП и КУН объединились в "Союз патриотических сил" для участия в выборах|date=31 July 2012}} The party itself had competed in 34 constituencies and lost in all.{{in lang|uk}} [http://apk.rbc.ua/ukr/vyboru2012/party/p37/okrug Candidates], RBC Ukraine[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/126937.html#.UUzMyKnCus0 Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC], Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)

The party congress approved a merge with People's Movement of Ukraine in May 2013.[http://un.ua/eng/article/450522.html Ukrainian People's Party, People's Movement Of Ukraine Decide Unite Into Rukh, Elect Kuibida Its Leader], Ukrainian News Agency (19 May 2013) However, a section of the party did not merge and continued the parties activities under the leadership of Oleksandr Ivanovych Klymenko.{{in lang|uk}} [http://tyzhden.ua/News/106264 Events March 29 : congresses held parties nominated presidential candidates], The Ukrainian Week (30 March 2014){{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/10/5/6999371/ UNP shrouded in smoke bombs changed the leader in "Donetskogo"], Ukrayinska Pravda (5 October 2013)

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the participated in 8 constituencies; but its candidates lost in all of them and thus the party won no parliamentary seats.[http://utr.tv/eng/news-from-www-ukrinform-ua/327072-poroshenko_bloc_to_have_greatest_number_of_seats_in_parliament_327072.html Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110220835/http://utr.tv/eng/news-from-www-ukrinform-ua/327072-poroshenko_bloc_to_have_greatest_number_of_seats_in_parliament_327072.html |date=2014-11-10 }}, Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014)
[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/233404.html People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC], Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/233426.html Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC], Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)[http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp501e?PT001F01=910 Political parties in the electoral process in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election], Central Election Commission of Ukraine

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party saw a total of 30 members elected to any level of political office across Ukraine.

In June 2021, Yuri Kostenko was reelected as party leader.

Leadership

Date	Party leader
class="wikitable"
1999–2013	Yuri Kostenko
2013–2021	Oleksandr Klymenko
2021–present	Yuri Kostenko

Results

= Verkhovna Rada =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Year !Votes ! % !Position !Seats won !+/- !Government
rowspan="3" \|2002 \| colspan="2" rowspan="3" \|With Our Ukraine Bloc \| rowspan="3" \|1st \| rowspan="3" \|{{Composition bar\|11\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}}{{efn\|UNR seats within the Our Ukraine Bloc total.}} \| rowspan="3" \| \| {{no2\|Opposition (2002–2005)}}
{{yes2\|Coalition government (2005)}}
{{yes2\|Coalition government (2005–2006)}}
2006 \| colspan="2" \|With Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch \|{{decrease}}8th \|{{Composition bar\|0\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}} \|{{decrease}}11 \| {{n/a\|Extra-parliamentary}}
rowspan="2" \|2007 \| colspan="2" rowspan="2" \|With Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc \| rowspan="2" \|{{increase}}3rd \| rowspan="2" \|{{Composition bar\|5\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}}{{efn\|UNP seats within the Our Ukraine Bloc total.}} \| rowspan="2" \|{{increase}}5 \| {{yes2\|Coalition government (2007–2010)}}
{{no2\|Opposition (2010–2012)}}
2012 \| colspan="3" \|Did not participate in the election{{efn\|However, UNP did nominate 34 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.}} \|{{Composition bar\|0\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}} \|{{decrease}} 5 \| {{n/a\|Extra-parliamentary}}
2014 \| colspan="3" \|Did not participate in the election{{efn\|However, UNP did nominate 8 candidates in single-mandate constituencies.}} \|{{Composition bar\|0\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}} \|{{steady}} 0 \| {{n/a\|Extra-parliamentary}}
2019 \| colspan="3" \|Did not participate in the election \|{{Composition bar\|0\|450\|hex={{party color\|Ukrainian People's Party}}}} \|{{steady}} 0 \| {{n/a\|Extra-parliamentary}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

!Year

!Votes

! %

!Position

!Seats won

!+/-

!Government

rowspan="3" |2002

| colspan="2" rowspan="3" |With Our Ukraine Bloc

| rowspan="3" |1st

| rowspan="3" |{{Composition bar|11|450|hex={{party color|Ukrainian People's Party}}}}{{efn|UNR seats within the Our Ukraine Bloc total.}}