Spade (political party)

All-Ukrainian Agrarian Association "Spade" (Ukrainian: Заступ, Zastup) is a Ukrainian political party registered on 4 May 2011.[2]

All-Ukrainian Agrarian Association "Spade"

Всеукраїнський аграрний об'єднання "заступ"
LeaderVira Ulianchenko
Founded4 May 2011
IdeologyAgrarianism[1]
Verkhovna Rada
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Its name is an obsolete form that means "spade".[2] Zastup is also a portmanteau standing for Za Sotsialnu Trudovu Ukrainsku Perspektyvu, meaning For Social Laborious Ukrainian Perspective. The party's former name was "People's Initiative" (Ukrainian: Народна ініціатива).[2][3] The party is led by Vira Ulianchenko, who is a former head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration.[2][4]

It participated in the 2014 election to the Verkhovna Rada.[2][5] The party won one seat when its unaffiliated candidate Valeriy Davydenko won in the 208th single-member constituency located in Bakhmach.[6] He won with 38.86% of the vote.[6] Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[7] Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37,43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

Election results

Verkhovna Rada
Election year # of
constituency votes		 # of
party list votes		 % of
party list votes		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2014 417,396 2.65
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References
  1. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2014). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. (in Russian) List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, ITAR-TASS (24 October 2014)
  3. (in Ukrainian) Election information, DA-TA
  4. Yushchenko appoints Vera Ulyanchenko as head of his secretariat, UNIAN (May 20, 2009)
  5. Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014)
  6. Data on vote counting at precincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014 Archived October 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  7. http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_golos?g_id=8580
  8. https://www.segodnya.ua/vybory2019/news/na-208-m-okruge-v-chernigovskoy-oblasti-slugu-naroda-panchenko-pobedil-nardep-davidenko-1308298.html


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