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Article 18.
 

Election Districts


1. The election of Members of Parliament shall be held in a nationwide election district, which shall include the whole territory of Ukraine and foreign election district, and in 225 single-mandate election districts, which shall be established by the Central Election Commission and shall exist on a permanent basis. The foreign election district (hereinafter, foreign district) shall include all foreign election precincts established as provided for in Article 22 of this Law.


2. Single-mandate districts, where possible, shall meet the following requirements: 1) single-mandate districts shall be created within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the oblasts, the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol, with approximately equal number of voters in each district. The approximate average number of voters in single-mandate districts shall be determined by the Central Election Commission on the basis of data of the State Voter Register. A deviation in the number of voters in a single-mandate election district may not exceed twelve percent from the approximate average number of voters in single-mandate election districts; 2) a single-mandate district shall be determined by the territory, within the boundaries of which the election precincts belonging to it are located. The center of the single-mandate district is an administrative territorial unit where the district election commission is located; 3) the boundaries of single-mandate districts are determined taking into consideration the boundaries of administrative territorial units, interests of the members of territorial communities and national minorities residing in the respective territory. Neighboring administrative territorial units with dense population of certain national minorities shall belong to the same election district. In the cases when in neighboring administrative territorial units the number of voters belonging to national minorities is higher than necessary for creation of one election district, districts are formed in such a way that in one of them the voters belonging to the national minority constitute the majority of voters in this election district. The data on the density of population of national minorities in the respective territory shall be submitted to the Central Election Commission by a central executive body responsible for implementation of the state policy in the sphere of inter-ethnic relations and protection of the rights of national minorities in Ukraine.


3. When it is necessary to create new (eliminate) regular election precincts or to change the boundaries of the existing election precincts within a single-mandate election district, the Central Election Commission makes a respective decision to change the boundaries of the neighboring single-mandate districts and their centers. No boundaries and centers of single-mandate districts may be changed during the election process.


4. The Central Election Commission not later than one hundred seventy-five days before the day of voting shall publish on its official web-site the list of single-mandate election districts with their numbers and boundaries as well as the addresses of the respective election commissions premises; and not later than on the second day after the beginning of the election process it shall publish these data in the national and regional printed media. {Article 18 in the wording of the Law № 709-VII dd. 21.11.2013}