See also: Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) and Socialist Party of Ukraine.
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Peasant Party of Ukraine | |
| Native Name: | Селянська партія України |
| Leader: | Zynoviy Kholodniuk |
| Foundation: | 25 January 1992 |
| Ideology: | Agrarianism Agrarian socialism |
| Position: | Centre-left to left-wing |
| Colours: | Yellow, Blue |
| Colorcode: | yellow |
| Headquarters: | Kyiv |
| Website: | selpu.com |
The Peasant Party of Ukraine (Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny, SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist[1] political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992 as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.[2]
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.[3] The SelPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada consisted of 14 deputies. After the creation of the new parliamentary faction Solidarity in 2000, a lot of deputies of the party moved to this new faction.[4]
The following elections were not successful for the party. In the elections of 2002 the party won 0.37% of the votes, in 2006 0.31% and in the 2007 elections the party did not participate.[5]
In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of Viktor Yanukovych.
In 2011, the party decided to join the Socialist Party of Ukraine.[6] On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the Justice Ministry.[7]
The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]
In 2019, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.[9]