1. District election commissions shall be formed in the cases provided for by law when elections are held in single-seat and/or multi-seat electoral districts. The powers of district election commissions may be vested in other election commissions.

2. The term of powers of district election commissions shall expire two months after the date of official publication of election results. , if the appeals/grievances to actions/omissions of the election commission, which resulted in violation of the vote counting procedure, were not submitted to the higher commission, and if legal proceedings with respect to these facts are not underway. In case of appeal to the voting results on the territory of the election precinct or the results of elections, the powers of the district election commission shall terminate from the date of making by the higher commission of the decision or from the date when the court judgment on the appeal/grievance took effect.

(paragraph 2 in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).

3. The number of voting members of district election commissions for elections of federal bodies of state power shall be established by the federal law. The number of voting members of district commissions for elections of bodies of state power of a subject of the Russian Federation, bodies of local self-government shall be established by a law of the subject of the Russian Federation.

(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).

4-5. Became invalid. – Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ.

6. A district election commission for elections of bodies of state power of a subject of the Russian Federation, bodies of local self-government shall be formed by the higher commission on the basis of proposals referred to in Sections 1 and 2, Article 22 of this Federal Law and proposals made by representative bodies of municipality, and proposals made at meetings of voters at places of their residence, work, service, study.

(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).

7. The higher election commission shall appoint at least one half of the total number of members of a district election commission for elections of bodies of state power of a subject of the Russian Federation, bodies of municipality of a municipality on the basis of proposals made by:

ɚ) political parties, that nominated federal lists of candidates included in the distribution of deputy seats in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation as well as political parties that put forward federal lists of candidates, to whom deputy mandates were transferred in accordance with Article 821 of Federal Law on election of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;

(in the version of Federal Law of May 12, 2009, # 94-FZ).

b) political parties, that nominated lists of candidates included in the distribution of deputy seats in the legislative (representative) body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation;

(in the version of Federal Law of April 22, 2010, # 63-FZ)

(Section 7 in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).

71. The higher election commission is obliged to appoint at least ½ of total number of members of the district election commission for elections to bodies of local self-government on the basis of submitted proposals of

a) political parties that submitted federal lists of candidates admitted for allocation of deputy mandates in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, as well as political parties that submitted federal lists of candidates, to whom deputy mandates were transferred, in accordance with Article 821, Federal Law on Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

(in the version of Federal Law of May 12, 2009, # 94-FZ).

b) political parties that submitted lists of candidates admitted to allocation of deputy mandates in a legislative/representative body of state authority of the subject of the Russian Federation, as well as political parties that submitted lists of candidates, to whom deputy mandates were provided in accordance with the law of the subject of the Russian Federation envisaged in Section 17, Article 35, of this Federal Law.

(in the version of Federal Law of April 22, 2010, # 63-FZ).

c) election associations that put forward candidates admitted to allocation of deputy mandates in the representative authority of the appropriate municipal entity.

(Section 71 was introduced by Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).

8. A district election commission shall:

ɚ) exercise control over the observance of the electoral rights of citizens of the Russian Federation on the territory of the electoral district;

b) work in conjunction with bodies of state power, bodies of local self-government on issues related to the preparation and conduct of elections in the electoral district;

c) register candidates;

d) approve the text of the ballot in the electoral district;

e) exercise control over compliance with the uniform procedure for vote-counting, determination of vote returns and establishment of election results on the territory of the electoral district;

f) determine the election results for the electoral district;

g) publish (make public) the results of an election for the electoral district in the relevant mass media;

h) provide legal and administrative/technical assistance to lower commissions;

i) consider appeals (grievances) related to decisions and actions (omissions) of lower commissions, and take reasoned decisions on such appeals (grievances);

j) exercise other powers in accordance with the law.