The Servant of the People – de facto led by President Volodymyr Zelensky – won 254 seats in the 450-member parliament (see note 1), thereby becoming the first party to secure the majority since Ukraine gained independence in 1991. Pro-Russian Opposition Platform – For Life (see note 2) came in a distant second with 43 seats. Three other parties took more than 20 seats: Former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's Fatherland, former President Petro Poroshenko's European Solidarity and rock singer Vyacheslav Vakarchuk's Voice (Holos). The 2019 elections saw a high turnover: over 323 candidates were elected to Parliament for the first time. The percentage of women nearly doubled from 11.6% in 2014 to 20%. On 29 August, Parliament elected Mr. Dmytro Razumkov, leader of the Servant of the People, as its new Speaker. It also approved Mr. Oleksiy Honcharuk from the same party as the new Prime Minister. At 35, he is the youngest Prime Minister in the history of Ukraine.

The 2019 elections were the first to be held under President Zelensky, who had defeated the then President Poroshenko in the run-off presidential elections held in April 2019, promising reforms and the tackling of corruption. On 20 May, the 41-year-old President was sworn in, promising an end to the war in the east of the country. He demanded Parliament to dismiss key officials including the Defense Minister, the head of the Security Service, and the Prosecutor General. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman of the Petro Poroshenko bloc, the largest party in the outgoing Parliament, announced his resignation in protest, inviting President Zelenskiy to take full responsibility for the country. On 21 May, the President dissolved Parliament and called a snap election for July. However, the outgoing Parliament continued to hold sessions. On 30 May, it voted to reject the Prime Minister’s resignation. Although some MPs appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the snap elections, on 20 June, the Court validated the presidential decree, paving the way for snap elections to be held in July (instead of October). During election campaigning, the Servant of the People pledged "radical changes", promising "cleansed, renewed and responsible" people in power.

Note 1:
Elections were not held in the war-torn Donbas region (in Donetsk and Luhansk) and in Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014.

Note 2:
The party is co-led by Mr. Yuriy Boyko, Mr. Vadim Rabinovich and Mr. Viktor Medvedchuk. Mr. Boyko had led the Opposition Bloc, which came third in the 2014 elections.