Initially Agrarian Party of Ukraine was created and registered in 1996, but soon after electing
Volodymyr Lytvyn the party was renamed couple of times and now is known as the
People's Party. From March 2016 until January 2018 veteran politician
Roman Bezsmertnyi was one of the party leaders of the Agrarian Party of Ukraine. According to the Agrarian Party party leader Skotsyk was expelled from the party on 12 September 2018 for "actions that harm the authority and discredit the governing body of the party and the party as a whole". Deputy leader of APU's Kirovohrad regional branch, Yurii Krutko was elected as Skotsyk's successor. On 3 January 2019, Skotsyk did file documents with the
Central Election Commission for registration as a candidate for the
2019 Ukrainian presidential election; claiming to do so as a candidate of the Agrarian Party. The following day the party denied this because they had expelled him. In the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party gained 0.51% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats. However, a self-nominated member of the party,
Ivan Chaikivskyi has won an election in the №165 single-member district. After the election, Chaikivskyi has joined the For the Future parliamentary group, later joining the
newly-founded party based on the parliamentary group. Before
2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party has announced that it has elected a pop singer, No.1 in APU's list for the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Mykhailo Poplavskyi as its new leader. In the local elections itself the party has won 355 deputies (312 directly, and 43 through self-nominated candidates), accounting for 0,82% of all seats available that election, losing as much as about 3000 deputies, compared to the
previous local elections result. == Ideology ==