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Article 89
 

On the basis of the protocols received from the precinct electoral commission(s) and compiled in accordance with the requirements of Article 55 of this Code, the territorial or circuit electoral commission establishes:


the total number of voters for the circuit;


the number of voters who have received ballots;


the number of voters who have taken part in the voting, including the number of voters who have taken part in early voting at the place of location, and the number of voters who have taken part in voting on the day of elections in the premises of voting precinct;


the number of votes given for each candidate for deputy and the number of votes given against all candidates for deputy (if the voting was held on one candidate – the number of votes given against the candidate);


the number of ballots recognized as invalid;


the number of ballots issued to the precinct electoral commissions;


the number of spoiled ballots; and


the number of unused ballots.


The candidate for deputy of a local Council of Deputies, who received most votes of the voters who took part in the voting, is deemed to be elected.When voting is held for one candidature, the candidate is deemed to be elected if he has obtained more than half of votes of the voters who took part in the voting


The territorial or circuit electoral commission may recognize elections as invalid if violations of the requirements of this Code were made in the course of elections or during the count of votes or determination of the results of elections, which influenced the results of the elections.A complaint about such violation is submitted to the territorial or circuit electoral commission by a candidate to deputy not later than on the third day following the day of elections.The decision of the territorial, circuit electoral commission may be appealed against in the superior territorial electoral commission within three days after its taking.


The territorial or circuit electoral commission establishes at its sitting the results of elections for the each electoral circuit and record the results in the protocol.The protocol is signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson, the secretary and the members of the commission.


The circuit electoral commission on elections of the regional Council of Deputies and the territorial electoral commission that exercises powers of circuit electoral commissions for elections to the Minsk City Council of Deputies in a district of the City of Minsk, not later than on the fifth day after the end of the voting, hands over the protocol respectively to the regional or the Minsk City territorial electoral commission and the bodies that formed the commission for information.The chairperson of the deputy chairperson or the secretary of the commission hands over the protocol in person.The protocol forwarded to the regional or the Minsk City territorial commission encloses, if any, special opinions of the members of the commission, statements of the authorized persons of the candidates for deputy and of other persons on violations of the requirements of this Code and decisions taken on them by the respective circuit or territorial electoral commission.


The territorial electoral commissions on elections to the district, city, settlement and rural Councils of Deputies hand over the protocols on the results of the elections to the bodies that formed the commission for information.


In case when the bodies that formed the commission detect violations of the requirements of this Code and of other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus made in the course of the voting or during the count of votes, this fact is immediately notified to the respective superior commission or the Central Commission.


In case of detection of mistakes and irregularities in the protocols of precinct, territorial or circuit electoral commissions as well as of other violations committed in the course of voting or during the count of votes, the superior electoral commission, on its own initiative or the application of the candidate, is entitled to take a decision on a recount of votes by the respective territorial or circuit electoral commission. An application of the candidate for deputy on a recount of votes is submitted to the superior electoral commission not later than on third day after the elections.The recount of votes of the voters is made by the territorial or circuit electoral commission in the presence of a member (members) of the superior territorial electoral commission and, if required, of the precinct electoral commissions.