page_title: Socialist Party of Ukraine
section_title: 2007 parliamentary election
hierarchical_section_title: Socialist Party of Ukraine / History / 2007 parliamentary election
caption_attribution_description: Socialist Party of Ukraine results (2.86%) in the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007. One of the maps showing the top six parties support - percentage of total national vote.
context_page_description: The Socialist Party of Ukraine is a social-democratic political party in Ukraine. It is one of the oldest parties and was created by the former members of the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine in late 1991 when the Communist Party was banned. It was part of the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 2007 and was long the fourth biggest party of Ukraine. Since 2007, the election results of the party have been extremely marginal. Oleksandr Moroz led the party for more than twenty years.
context_section_description: In the 2007 parliamentary election, the party's vote share collapsed. The Socialist Party of Ukraine failed to secure parliamentary representation, having received 2.86% of the total national vote (0.14% short of the required minimum 3% representation threshold). This led to more high-ranking members leaving the party and the creation of the offspring Union of Leftists.
  After having led the party for 20 years, Oleksander Moroz in July 2010 was succeeded by Vasyl Tsushko. However, Moroz was again elected as party leader in August 2011.
caption: A map showing the results of the SPU (percentage of total national vote) per region for the 2007 parliamentary elections
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