(1) In settlements with a population of more than ten thousand, single-member constituencies shall be drawn up by the head of the local election office. The head of the local election office shall ask the local election commission for its opinion in advance; however, the opinion shall not be binding to the head of the local election office.
(2) Single-member constituencies shall be established in a manner that
a) they form contiguous areas;
b) they have approximately the same number of inhabitants with the right to vote according to the central electoral register.
(3) When drawing up single-member constituencies, the number of people with voting rights in each single-member constituency may diverge from the arithmetic mean of the number of voters the single-member constituencies of the settlement by no more than fifteen per cent, taking into account settlement structure, geography and other local characteristics.