Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc

Formed as an alliance based around Chernovetskyi's Christian Liberal Party (Ukrainian: Християнсько-ліберальна партія України), bloc's 120-candidates list was registered by the Kyiv City Territorial Electoral Commission on 12 February 2006,[1] rallying around Leonid Chernovetskyi personality. In a big electoral surprise, the bloc has finished second with 12,94% of the vote, falling just 12 points behind Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and 4 points ahead of Our Ukraine,[2] on the list of which Chernovetskyi ran in the national election the same day. Chernovetskyi himself won the mayoral election in another surprise that evening, winning over 31% of the vote, 8 points ahead of then–favourite to win the position, Vitali Klitschko.[2]

Following the Verkhovna Rada decision to dissolve Kyiv City Council and to hold a snap general election in the city,[3] Chernovetskyi and his team expanded the bloc, and allied with the Green Planet and Women of Ukraine parties[4] to ran in 2008 election. Despite polls showing high disapproval for the incumbent Mayor, Chernovetskyi was successfully re-elected with 38% of the vote, while his bloc won the election in a landslide, receiving over 30% of the vote and 43 seats,[5] gaining 22 deputies in the city council.

Although, the bloc intended to run nationally in the 2012 parliamentary election,[6][7] on 22 September 2011 the bloc's faction in Kyiv City Council has been dissolved.[8][9] All the deputies that were members of the faction became independents.[9]