Procedure for establishing majoritarian electoral districts for parliamentary elections of Georgia

1. For parliamentary elections of Georgia, 73 single-seat majoritarian electoral districts shall be established.

2. Majoritarian districts shall not be established in the occupied territories defined under the Law of Georgia on Occupied Territories.

3. The number of voters registered with the majoritarian electoral districts must be consistent with international standards and ensure possibly equal distribution of voters within the electoral districts.

4. Majoritarian electoral districts shall be established and their borders shall be defined under this Law and by ordinance of the CEC, and numbers for the electoral districts shall be defined by ordinanceof the CEC not later than 1 June of the year of the regular Parliamentary elections of Georgia and not earlier than 1 December of the previous year.

5. Majoritarian electoral districts shall be established and their borders shall be defined by ordinance of the CEC under this article and Article 1101 of this Law within the municipalities where the establishment of two or more than two electoral districts are intended if the boundaries of the majoritarian electoral districts are not defined under this Law.

6. An electoral district may include one municipality or more than one adjacent municipality completely (except as provided for under Article 1101(28) of this Law), local majoritarian electoral districts adjoining to each other within one municipality or within adjacent municipalities, and in the case under paragraph 5 of this article, an electoral district may also include local majoritarian electoral districts adjoining to each other completely or partially.

7. Within the period between regular parliamentary elections of Georgia and the following regular elections, parliamentary by-elections and extraordinary elections shall be conducted in the majoritarian electoral districts determined under paragraphs 4 and 5 of this article. Boundaries of these electoral districts shall remain unchanged during this period irrespective of possible changes in administrative boundaries of the municipalities and local majoritarian electoral districts.

8. When establishing majoritarian electoral districts, the recent data from the electronic database of the unified list of voters available at the CEC at the time of their establishment shall be used; and in the case provided for in paragraph 5 of this article, the CEC shall use the same data from the electronic database of the unified list of voters that were used when defining boundaries of the electoral districts under this Law.