Peasant Party of Ukraine

The Peasant Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Селянська партія України, Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny, SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist[1] political party in Ukraine.

It was created in 1992[2] as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.

[3] At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1994, the party obtained 2.74% of the votes and 19 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada.

At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1998, it gained in coalition with the Socialist Party of Ukraine 8.56% of the vote and 35 seats.

[2] In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of Viktor Yanukovych.