Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc was a regional electoral alliance supporting then–people's deputy and since 2006, the Mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetskyi.

History

2006 Kyiv local election

Formed as an alliance based around Chernovetskyi's Christian Liberal Party , bloc's 120-candidates list was registered by the Kyiv City Territorial Electoral Commission on 12 February 2006, 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, 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.

2008 Kyiv local election

Following the Verkhovna Rada decision to dissolve Kyiv City Council and to hold a snap general election in the city, Chernovetskyi and his team expanded the bloc, and allied with the Green Planet and Women of Ukraine parties 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, gaining 22 deputies in the city council. Although, the bloc intended to run nationally in the 2012 parliamentary election, on 22 September 2011 the bloc's faction in Kyiv City Council has been dissolved. All the deputies that were members of the faction became independents.

Membership