The son of Ukrainian Soviet dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil, Chornovil was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Party of Regions during the Orange Revolution, later becoming an independent in 2008.

Taras Chornovil was born on 1 June 1964 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to Viacheslav Chornovil,[5] a Soviet dissident, politician, and founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and his wife, Olena Antoniv.

In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3th[clarification needed] on their party list).

[5] On 28 November 2006, he was one of the only two Party of Regions MPs who voted in favour of the law recognizing Holodomor as genocide.

[4] In the 2012 parliamentary elections Chornovil was a candidate in single-member district number 212 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kyiv; he became sixth in this district with 6.47% of the votes thus failed to win parliamentary representation.