The Democratic Party of Ukraine is a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 registered in 1991.

History

The Democratic Party of Ukraine is one of the oldest political institutions of Ukraine. DemPU was founded in 1990 by a group of famous Ukrainian dissidents.

In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994

The first parliamentary election in independent Ukraine took place in 1994. The elections were conducted for the second convocation of the Parliament regarding the previous one as temporary and transitional....

 the party gained 2 seats. In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998

The second Ukrainian parliamentary election after the collapse of the Soviet Union took place on 29 March 1998. In comparison to the first parliamentary election, this time half of 450 parliament seats were filled by single-seat majority winners in 225 electoral regions , and the other half were...

 the party was party of the Electoral bloc NEP with the Party of Economical Revival

Party of Economical Revival

Party of Economical Revival was a political party in Ukraine set up by former communists in Crimea in November 1992 as Party of Economical Revival of Crimea. It was suspected of having ties with organized crime...

, the combination won 1,22% of the national vote; the party gained 1 (single-mandate constituency) seat. In a union with the Democratic Union

Democratic Union (Ukraine)

The Democratic Union is a political party in Ukraine registered in June 1999.At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won together with the Democratic Party of Ukraine 0.87%% of the popular vote and 4 seats out of 450 seats...

 the party gained 4 constituency seats during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002

Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2002 took place on March 31. Half of the deputies to Verkhovna Rada were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies...

. At the parliamentary elections 2006

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006

The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. Election campaigning officially began on July 7, 2005. Between November 26 and December 31, 2005 party lists of candidates were formed....

 the party took part in the alliance Block of people's democratic parties

Block of People's Democratic Parties

Block of People's Democratic Parties was a political alliance that took part in the parliamentary elections 2006. It did not overcome the 3% threshold and therefore won no seats in the Ukrainian Parliament....

 but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (wining only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. In the 30 September 2007 elections

Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007

Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt...

, the party failed as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset to win parliamentary representation.

In July 2011 the chairman of the Democratic Party of Ukraine Sergey Kozachenko was sentenced to eight years in prison Kiev District Court of Simferopol on charges of embezzling 65 million hryvnia in credit union's "Southern". .