The draft law establishes a new electoral system for the parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Since independence in 1991, the electoral system for parliamentary representation in Ukraine has changed a number of times:
Before 1998 all members of the parliament were elected in single-seat constituencies;
In 1998 a mixed system was introduced with half of the 450 deputies elected by proportional representation and the other half in single-seat constituencies.
In 2004 a party list proportional representation system using closed lists was introduced. It was applied in the 2006 regular and 2007 early parliamentary elections.
