Elections in Crimea

Elections in Crimea

1998, 1 min

The video shows a story about the elections in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea: a polling station, people, ballots, ballot boxes, a blitz of surveys of Crimean residents.

Elections to the Verkhovna Rada were held on March 29, 1998. There were 30 political parties and electoral blocs running for parliamentary seats.

Of these, only 8 passed the 4% threshold: the Communist Party of Ukraine - 84 seats, the People's Movement - 32 seats, the Electoral Bloc of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Peasant Party of Ukraine "For Truth, for the People, for Ukraine! " - 29 mandates, the Green Party - 19 mandates, the People's Democratic Party - 17 mandates, the All-Ukrainian Union "Hromada" - 16 mandates, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine - 14 mandates, the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine - 14 mandates.