page_title: Svoboda (political party)
section_title: 2014 and 2019 elections: Losing support
hierarchical_section_title: Svoboda (political party) / History / 2014 and 2019 elections: Losing support
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Результати виборів до Верховної Ради України, які відбулись 25 жовтня 2014 року. Інформація з офіційного сайту ЦВК.
context_page_description: The All-Ukrainian Union or "Svoboda" party, is a far-right, radical nationalist party.
  It is widely considered a fascist and anti-semitic party, although others have disputed the neo-fascist label, simply considering a radical nationalist party.
  The party was founded in 1991 as the Social-National Party of Ukraine and acts as a populist proponent of extreme nationalism.
  The party was renamed Svoboda in 2004, and since then Oleh Tyahnybok has been party leader. In recent years Svoboda has become a significant force in Ukrainian politics.
context_section_description: In the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party won constituency 6 seats; the party came 0,29% short to overcome the 5% threshold to win seats on the nationwide list. The parties election results thus halved compared with the 2012 election because of negative assessments of the activities of the local governments that included Svoboda members. In its former stronghold Lviv Oblast Svoboda won no constituencies. Also the fact that in this election the party was not the only one using radically patriotic, anti-communist and anti-Russian slogans undermined its election outcome.
  On 12 November 2014 the party's ministers in the Yatsenyuk Government resigned (they became acting ministers till a new Government was formed). The parties governors of Poltava Oblast, Ternopil Oblast and Rivne Oblast also resigned and were formally dismissed by President Petro Poroshenko on 18 November 2014.
  In West Ukraine Svoboda improved its electoral performance in the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections. In the elections its candidate Ruslan Martsinkiv was elected Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk.
  On 19 November 2018 Svoboda and fellow Ukrainian nationalist political organizations Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, Right Sector and C14 endorsed Ruslan Koshulynskyi candidacy in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. In the election he received 1.6% of the votes.
  In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election other parties joined Svoboda to form a united party list;the Governmental Initiative of Yarosh, Right Sector and National Corps. But in the election they won 2.15% of the votes, less than half of the 5% election threshold, and thus no parliamentary seats via the national party list. The party did win one constituency seat, in Ivano-Frankivsk. In constituency 83 Svoboda candidate Oksana Savchuk won the party's sole constituency seat with 46.68% of the votes.
caption: Party support (% of the votes cast) in different regions of Ukraine (in the 2014 election).
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