Types of Local Elections and the Procedure for Their Calling
- Local elections may be ordinary, extraordinary, repeat, by-, supplementary or first.
- Ordinary local elections shall be called in connection with the expiry of the term of office of local councils, village and settlement mayors elected in the previous ordinary local elections.
Ordinary local elections are held simultaneously throughout Ukraine on the last Sunday of October of the fifth year of the term of office of the councils and mayors elected in the previous ordinary local elections.
Ordinary elections of rayon in city councils (in case they are created) shall be held simultaneously with other ordinary elections on the entire territory of Ukraine within the time limits and in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
The decision to call ordinary elections of members of oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village or settlement councils and village, settlement or city mayors shall be made by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The decision to call ordinary elections of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea shall be made by the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine.
- Extraordinary local elections shall be called by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in case of early termination of powers of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village or settlement council or village, settlement or city mayor, as well as in other cases provided by law. Such a decision shall be made by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine no later than within ninety days from the date of the early termination of the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the respective local council or the village, settlement or city mayor.
The second paragraph was repealed.
- Repeat local elections shall be appointed by the territorial election commission in case the respective local elections are deemed as not having taken place, in accordance with the procedure established by this Code.
The grounds for deeming local elections as not having taken place and calling repeat elections are defined in Article 280 of this Code.
- By-elections of members (a member) of a village, settlement or city council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) shall be called in the respective multi-member election district in connection with the early termination of the powers of a member of the respective council elected in that election district. When calling the elections, the territorial election commission shall determine the number of seats that will be distributed in such elections in the multi-member election district.
- Supplementary elections of members of village and settlement councils from a territorial community that has joined another territorial community shall be appointed by the Central Election Commission in accordance with the procedure established by this Code.
Members of village and settlement councils elected during supplementary elections shall exercise their powers until the election of a new composition of the respective council at the next ordinary or extraordinary local elections in accordance with the procedure established by the Constitution of Ukraine, this Code, and the laws of Ukraine.
- First elections of members of village, settlement or city councils or village, settlement or city mayors shall be appointed by the Central Election Commission upon the respective request of the authorized body.
First elections of members of oblast and rayon councils shall be appointed by the Central Election Commission upon the respective request of the authorized body on the basis of the decision on the formation of oblast and rayon councils.
First elections of members of rayon in city councils (in case they are created) are appointed by the corresponding city council on the basis of the decision on the formation of city rayon councils.
- In the year of an ordinary local elections, by-elections shall not be called and shall not be held, and the first local elections shall be called and held together with the ordinary local elections.
- The Central Executive Body, which ensures the formation and implementation of state regional policy, state policy in the field of local self-government development, the territorial organization of power and the administrative-territorial structure, shall provide the Central Election Commission no later than one hundred and ten days before the day of voting information according to a form established by the Commission regarding the list of local councils with an indication of the administrative-territorial units which are a part of them, in each oblast of Ukraine, as well as in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
