Viktor Yanukovych Party of Regions Yulia Tymoshenko BYuT (Batkivshchyna) Early parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 30 September 2007.

The election date was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine triggered by the 2 April 2007 presidential decree on dissolution of Ukraine's parliament.

[4] The number of seats that are allocated to each party, above the 3% participation rate quota, is calculated using the Hamilton method of apportionment.

[5] An alliance of two electoral blocs associated with the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and Our Ukraine-Peoples Self Defence (OU-PSD) obtained a narrow majority of seats,[6] leaving their main rival, the Party of Regions (PoR) in opposition.

[22] This easily exceeded the 50% participation required by Ukrainian law to make the election valid.

The Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) secured only 2.86% of the vote and as such did not win any seats in the new parliament.

In 2006, minor parties that received less than the 3% statutory representation threshold, accounted for 17% of all registered votes.

Following the announcement of preliminary election results, the parties expressed their position on forming the coalition.

The Party of Regions announced itself a winner of the election and stated that it started negotiations on forming a ruling coalition.

Oleksandr Moroz, the leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, acknowledged his defeat on 4 October 2007 and supported Tymoshenko's bid for premiership.

[24] The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is competent on the condition that no less than two-thirds of its constitutional composition has been elected.

This means that if any one of the two largest parties resign en masse, the parliament would lose its authority and fresh elections would be required.