Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc

Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Леоніда Черновецького) was a regional electoral alliance supporting then–people's deputy and since 2006, the Mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetskyi.

Formed as an alliance based around Chernovetskyi's Christian Liberal Party (Ukrainian: Християнсько-ліберальна партія України), bloc's 120-candidates list was registered by the Kyiv City Territorial Electoral Commission on 12 February 2006,[1] rallying around Leonid Chernovetskyi personality.

In a big electoral surprise, the bloc has finished second with 12,94% of the vote, falling just 12 points behind Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and 4 points ahead of Our Ukraine,[2] on the list of which Chernovetskyi ran in the national election the same day.

[2] Following the Verkhovna Rada decision to dissolve Kyiv City Council and to hold a snap general election in the city,[3] Chernovetskyi and his team expanded the bloc, and allied with the Green Planet and Women of Ukraine parties[4] to ran in 2008 election.

Despite polls showing high disapproval for the incumbent Mayor, Chernovetskyi was successfully re-elected with 38% of the vote, while his bloc won the election in a landslide, receiving over 30% of the vote and 43 seats,[5] gaining 22 deputies in the city council.