[2] A total of 15 political parties won seats, although a majority of deputies were independents.

[4] This election was the result of a compromise between the President and the Verkhovna Rada, which was reached on 24 September 1993 because of a political crisis caused by mass protests and strikes particularly from students and miners.

In February 1997 the following factions were present in parliament:[7] Due to the low turnout, 112 seats remained vacant and later in the summer of 1994 (24 and 31 July and 7 August) 20 MPs were elected to the Rada.

On 30 May 1994 MP Roman Kuper died of a heart attack and Leonid Kravchuk was elected as his replacement on 25 September.

On 21 August MP Vitaliy Yurkovsky died, and was replaced by Natalya Vitrenko.