Voters from Western Ukraine and Central Ukraine tend to vote for pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats[REF][REF] with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (now Batkivshchyna[REF]) as its frontrunners;[REF] UDAR replaced the Our Ukraine Bloc in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election [REF].
From the 1998 parliamentary elections[REF][REF][REF][REF] till the 2012 parliamentary elections no nationalist party obtained seats in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) [REF].