6th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
| Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 6th convocation | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seat composition of the 6th Verkhovna Rada. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Meeting place | Verkhovna Rada building | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term | 23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Election | 2007 parliamentary election | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | 28 committees | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | iportal | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Members | 450 / 450
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| Chairman | Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Lytvyn (from December 9, 2008; Lytvyn Bloc) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Deputy | Oleksandr Lavrynovych Adam Martyniuk (from May 11, 2010; Communist Party) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy | Mykola Tomenko (from September 2, 2008; Fatherland) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party control | Coalition: PR–KP–BL | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 6th convocation (Ukrainian: Верховна Рада України VI скликання, Verkhovna Rada Ukrayiny VI sklykannia) was a convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. Its composition was based on the results of the snap parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007. The elections were held under the proportional system according to electoral lists of political parties and electoral blocks of political parties in Ukraine. The 6th convocation ended on 14 December 2012 (six weeks after the 2012 parliamentary elections).
According to the results of early elections the following political forces got in the Verkhovna Rada:
- Party of Regions with 34.37% of votes
- Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, BYuT (Ukrainian: Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ) with 30.71%
- Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Наша Україна–Народна Самооборона, romanized: Blok Nasha Ukrayina-Narodna Samooborona, NUNS) with 14.15%
- Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) with 5.39%
- Lytvyn Bloc with 3.96%
Together, these political forces gathered around 88.58% of the votes. All other political parties and blocks do not pass the electoral threshold of 3%. 2,73% of electors voted "against all".