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Reactive power optimization is an important measure to improve the secure and economic performance of power systems. To reduce the dimension of solution space and solve the time-consuming problem more effectively, a network partition method for distributed reactive power optimization is introduced to divide a large-scale power system into several small-scale subsystems. The voltage response of nodes to the perturbation of various reactive power resources is calculated in the partition method. And a new electrical distance is worked out in the method, which combines the network topology information with the voltage response. The a decomposition algorithm is used to cluster nodes in power systems. Some supplements based on divided subsystems for distributed reactive power optimization are represented after network partition. The simulation of a practical system verifies that the reasonable and effective results can be obtained using the proposed partition method.