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 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  7. "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23.
  8. "На 208-м округе в Черниговской области "слугу народа" Панченко опередил нардеп Давыденко".


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