Verkhovna Rada of Crimea

Not to be confused with State Council of Crimea.

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,^[a] was the Ukrainian legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea before the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Верховна Рада Криму Верховный Совет Крыма Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	19 June 1991; 34 years ago (1991-06-19)
Disbanded	15 March 2014; 11 years ago (2014-03-15)
Preceded by	Crimean Regional Council
Succeeded by	State Council of Crimea
Structure
Seats	100
5 80 2 5 5 3
Political groups	Following the 2010 elections: Government (80)   Party of Regions (80) Others (20)   Communist Party of Ukraine (5)   Soyuz (5)   Russian Unity (3)   Qurultai-Rukh (5)   Strong Ukraine (2)
Elections
Last election	October 31, 2010
Meeting place
Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol
Website
rada.crimea.ua (Archived)
Constitution
Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.

On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoisted the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially dissolved the parliament.^[1] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea,^[2] the State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.

Last election

Main article: 2010 Crimean parliamentary election

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Party-list	Constituency	Total
	Party of Regions	357,030	50.44	32	48	80
	Communist Party of Ukraine	54,172	7.65	5	0	5
	Qurultai-Rukh	51,253	7.24	5	0	5
	Soyuz	38,514	5.44	3	2	5
	Russian Unity	29,343	4.15	3	0	3
	Strong Ukraine	26,515	3.75	2	0	2
	Batkivshchyna	19,589	2.77	0	0	0
	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine	12,614	1.78	0	0	0
	Party of Pensioners of Ukraine	11,133	1.57	0	0	0
	Front for Change	8,281	1.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	7,268	1.03	0	0	0
	People's Party	4,563	0.64	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Ukraine	2,909	0.41	0	0	0
	Party of Greens of Ukraine	2,493	0.35	0	0	0
	All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War"	2,030	0.29	0	0	0
	Justice Party	1,822	0.26	0	0	0
	Greens	1,699	0.24	0	0	0
	Peasant Party of Ukraine	1,396	0.20	0	0	0
	Motherland [uk]	1,395	0.20	0	0	0
	Svoboda	1,361	0.19	0	0	0
	New Politics	1,291	0.18	0	0	0
	United Centre	1,278	0.18	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Social Democratic Party	1,240	0.18	0	0	0
	Union of Left Forces	1,177	0.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian People's Party	1,114	0.16	0	0	0
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine	980	0.14	0	0	0
	People's Power Party	934	0.13	0	0	0
	New Generation Party	904	0.13	0	0	0
	Socialist Ukraine	878	0.12	0	0	0
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)	803	0.11	0	0	0
	People's Labor Union of Ukraine	745	0.11	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor"	743	0.10	0	0	0
	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists	702	0.10	0	0	0
	Democratic Party of Ukraine	625	0.09	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine	624	0.09	0	0	0
	Hromada	452	0.06	0	0	0
	European Party of Ukraine	432	0.06	0	0	0
Against all		57,552	8.13	–	–	–
Total		707,854	100.00	50	50	50
Valid votes		707,854	97.01
Invalid/blank votes		21,794	2.99
Total votes		729,648	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,522,000	47.94
Source: Government of Crimea

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)							Total	Vacant
	Party of Regions	Qurultai-Rukh	Soyuz	Russian Unity	Communists	Strong Ukraine	Non-affiliated
End of previous convocation	44	8	10	DNP	9	DNP	DNP	100	0
Begin	80	5	5	3	5	2	-	100	0
February 20, 2013[3]	80	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	3
November 27, 2013[4]	82	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	1
Latest voting share	82.0%	4.0%	4.0%	3.0%	3.0%	N/A	3.0%
Note:

1. Ukrainian: Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим, romanized: Verkhovna Rada Avtonomnoï Respubliky Krym;
   Russian: Верховный Совет Автономной Республики Крым, romanized: Verkhovny Sovet Avtonomnoy Respubliki Krym;
   Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası/Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы

Chairpersons

Regional executive committee

• Mikhail Kuzmenko (1954–1956)
• Ivan Filippov (1956–1959)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1959–1963)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1963–1964, industrial)
• Nikolai Moiseev (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1964–1965)
• Trofim Chemodurov (1966–1979)
• Yuri Bakhtin (1979–1985)
• Alexander Roshchupkin (1985–1989)
• Vitaly Kurashik (1989–1991)

Regional council

• Mykola Bahrov (1991–1994)
• Sergei Tsekov (1994–1995)
• Yevhen Suprunyuk (1995–1996)
• Vasily Kiselev (1996–1997)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (1997–1998)
• Leonid Hrach (1998–2002)
• Boris Deich (2002–2006)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (2006–2010)
• Vladimir Konstantinov (2010–2014)

See also

• State Council of Crimea