Verkhovna Rada of Crimea

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea
Верховна Рада Криму
Верховный Совет Крыму
Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası
Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы
Verkhovna Rada of Crimea; Верховна Рада Криму; Верховный Совет Крыму; Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası; Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы;
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	19 June 1991; 33 years ago
Disbanded	15 March 2014; 10 years ago
Preceded by	Crimean Regional Council
Succeeded by	State Council of Crimea
Seats	100
Elections
Last election	2010
Meeting place
	Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol
Website
	https://web.archive.org/web/20020928081025/https://rada.crimea.ua/
Constitution
	Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,^[a] was the Ukrainian legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea before the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.

On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoist the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially dissolved the parliament.^[1] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea,^[2] a puppet State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.

Last election


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Party-list	Constituency	Total
	Party of Regions	357,030	50.44	32	48	80
	Communist Party of Ukraine	54,172	7.65	5	0	5
	Qurultai-Rukh	51,253	7.24	5	0	5
	Soyuz	38,514	5.44	3	2	5
	Russian Unity	29,343	4.15	3	0	3
	Strong Ukraine	26,515	3.75	2	0	2
	Batkivshchyna	19,589	2.77	0	0	0
	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine	12,614	1.78	0	0	0
	Party of Pensioners of Ukraine	11,133	1.57	0	0	0
	Front for Change	8,281	1.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	7,268	1.03	0	0	0
	People's Party	4,563	0.64	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Ukraine	2,909	0.41	0	0	0
	Party of Greens of Ukraine	2,493	0.35	0	0	0
	All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War"	2,030	0.29	0	0	0
	Justice Party	1,822	0.26	0	0	0
	Greens	1,699	0.24	0	0	0
	Peasant Party of Ukraine	1,396	0.20	0	0	0
	Motherland [uk]	1,395	0.20	0	0	0
	Svoboda	1,361	0.19	0	0	0
	New Politics	1,291	0.18	0	0	0
	United Centre	1,278	0.18	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Social Democratic Party	1,240	0.18	0	0	0
	Union of Left Forces	1,177	0.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian People's Party	1,114	0.16	0	0	0
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine	980	0.14	0	0	0
	People's Power Party	934	0.13	0	0	0
	New Generation Party	904	0.13	0	0	0
	Socialist Ukraine	878	0.12	0	0	0
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)	803	0.11	0	0	0
	People's Labor Union of Ukraine	745	0.11	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor"	743	0.10	0	0	0
	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists	702	0.10	0	0	0
	Democratic Party of Ukraine	625	0.09	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine	624	0.09	0	0	0
	Hromada	452	0.06	0	0	0
	European Party of Ukraine	432	0.06	0	0	0
Against all		57,552	8.13	–	–	–
Total		707,854	100.00	50	50	50

Valid votes		707,854	97.01
Invalid/blank votes		21,794	2.99
Total votes		729,648	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,522,000	47.94
Source: Government of Crimea

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)							Total	Vacant

	Party of Regions	Qurultai-Rukh	Soyuz	Russian Unity	Communists	Strong Ukraine	Non-affiliated
End of previous convocation	44	8	10	DNP	9	DNP	DNP	100	0

Begin	80	5	5	3	5	2	-	100	0
February 20, 2013^[3]	80	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	3
November 27, 2013^[4]	82	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	1
Latest voting share	82.0%	4.0%	4.0%	3.0%	3.0%	N/A	3.0%
Note:

^ Ukrainian: Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим, romanized: Verkhovna Rada Avtonomnoï Respubliky Krym;
Russian: Верховный Совет Автономной Республики Крым, romanized: Verkhovny Sovet Avtonomnoy Respubliki Krym;
Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası/Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы

Chairpersons

Regional executive committee

Mikhail Kuzmenko (1954–1956)
Ivan Filippov (1956–1959)
Vladimir Druzhynin (1959–1963)
Vladimir Druzhynin (1963–1964, industrial)
Nikolai Moiseev (1963–1964, agrarian)
Vladimir Druzhynin (1964–1965)
Trofim Chemodurov (1966–1979)
Yuri Bakhtin (1979–1985)
Alexander Roshchupkin (1985–1989)
Vitaly Kurashik (1989–1991)

Regional council

Mykola Bahrov (1991–1994)
Sergei Tsekov (1994–1995)
Yevhen Suprunyuk (1995–1996)
Vasily Kiselev (1996–1997)
Anatoliy Hrytsenko (1997–1998)
Leonid Hrach (1998–2002)
Boris Deich (2002–2006)
Anatoliy Hrytsenko (2006–2010)
Vladimir Konstantinov (2010–2014)

References

^ "ВР розпустила парламент Криму" [VR dissolved parliament of Crimea] (in Ukrainian). UNIAN. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
^ "Ukraine 'preparing withdrawal of troops from Crimea'". BBC News. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
^ Composition on February 20, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014
^ Composition on November 27, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014

44°57′6″N 34°5′49″E / 44.95167°N 34.09694°E / 44.95167; 34.09694

[1] Ukrainian: Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим, romanized: Verkhovna Rada Avtonomnoï Respubliky Krym;
Russian: Верховный Совет Автономной Республики Крым, romanized: Verkhovny Sovet Avtonomnoy Respubliki Krym;
Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası/Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы

[2] "ВР розпустила парламент Криму" [VR dissolved parliament of Crimea] (in Ukrainian). UNIAN. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2020.

[3] "Ukraine 'preparing withdrawal of troops from Crimea'". BBC News. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.

[4] Composition on February 20, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014

[5] Composition on November 27, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014

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