page_title: Lytvyn Bloc
section_title: Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007
hierarchical_section_title: Lytvyn Bloc / History / Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007
caption_attribution_description: Bloc Lytvyn Party results (3.96%), one of the maps showing the top six parties support - percentage of total national vote Graphical representation of the 2007 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election. All data is derived from the published official results provided by the Ukrainian Authority (See links and data tables below)
context_page_description: The Lytvyn Bloc, formerly Lytvyn's People's Bloc, was a centrist political alliance in Ukraine from 2006 till 2012 led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. It is one of successors of the previous political alliance For United Ukraine which fell apart after Party of Regions left it. In 2007 the bloc surprisingly managed to return to parliament as a union of the People's Party and the Labour Party. According to Lytvyn the party had 400,000 members in October 2009.
  On 17 November 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections.
context_section_description: In the early parliamentary election held on September 30, 2007, the Lytvyn Bloc consisted of 
  People's Party
  Labour Party
  The bloc won 3.96% of the popular vote, with this result the bloc placed in fifth place, after the Communist Party and Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. It won 20 out of 450 seats.
  After the 2008 Ukrainian political crisis the Lytvyn Bloc joined the ruling two party coalition. On December 16, 2008 a government was formed representing a 245-seat majority of the parliament, between the Lytvyn Bloc, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.
  On February 21, 2010 during a party congress of Strong Ukraine (renamed Labor Party in November 2009) announced that it leaves the parliamentary faction of Lytvyn bloc and in an electoral alliance with the party Information Ukraine creating the Tigipko Bloc. One of the representatives of Lytvyn Bloc, however, noted that the members of parliament from Lytvyn Bloc cannot be recalled from the parliament, because they were elected as part of the parliamentary faction, but they may leave voluntarily if they will surrender their mandates.
  On March 11, 2010 together with Party of Regions and Communist Party of Ukraine the bloc joined the first Azarov Government
  In October 2010 one deputy of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc faction joined the Lytvyn Bloc faction.
  In November 2010 the Bloc of Lytvyn faction in the Verkhovna Rada was renamed People's Party faction.
caption: Map showing the results of the bloc percentage of total national vote) per region for the 2007 parliamentary election.
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