Time lines for Calling Local Elections and Announcement of the Election Process

1. Ordinary local elections shall be called no later than ninety days prior to the day of voting, whereas extraordinary local elections shall be called no later than sixty days prior to the day of voting.

The election process shall commence fifty days prior to the day of ordinary or extraordinary local elections.

2. Repeat local elections shall be called on the last Sunday of the sixty-day time period from the day of the adoption of the decision on their calling, whereas the election process shall commence fifty days prior to the day of the repeat local elections.

The decision on calling repeat elections shall be made by the territorial election commission no later than within ten days from the date of occurrence of the circumstances provided for by this Code for the appointment of such election or from the date of termination of the circumstances that became the basis for termination of the electoral process of the respective local elections.

3. By-elections of members (a member) of a village, settlement or city council (of a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) in a multi-member district shall be called subject to the provisions of Article 5 of this Code for the upcoming last Sunday of March or the last Sunday of October (except for the year of an ordinary local elections), and the election process shall commence fifty days prior to the day of the by-elections.

The decision to call 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 made by the territorial election commission no later than within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice of early termination of powers of a member of the council elected in the respective election district by the respective local election commission but not later than sixty days prior to the day of the upcoming by-elections determined in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of this Code.

4. A supplementary election shall be called no later than seventy days prior to the day of voting, whereas the election process shall commence fifty days prior to the day of voting in the supplementary election in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of this Code.


5. First local elections shall be called no later than seventy days prior to the day of voting, whereas the election process shall commence fifty days prior to the day of voting in the first local elections.


6. Local elections (repeat voting in local elections) shall be called for a Sunday.


7. A body which, in accordance with Article 194 of this Code has adopted a decision on the calling of a repeat election, a by-election or first local elections shall no later than the third day of the day of adoption thereof make the decision public in a manner determined by it, and shall as well as notify the Central Election Commission thereof within the same time period.


8. The Central Election Commission shall, by way of adopting the respective decision, announce the commencement of the election process in ordinary local elections, first elections of local council members or village, settlement or city mayor or supplementary elections of members of village or settlement councils, whereas a territorial election commission shall at its meeting announce the commencement of the election process in extraordinary, repeat or by- local elections, about which a record is made in the minutes of the commission meeting. The adoption by the respective election commission of a decision on the commencement of the election process in the respective type of local elections shall be deemed its official announcement. The decision of the respective election commission on the announcement of the commencement of an election process of the respective type of local elections shall be published no later than three days following the day after the adoption thereof in a manner determined by it.

The official announcement through the adoption of a decision on the commencement of an election process shall be made by the Central Election Commission no later than five days prior to the day of the commencement of the election process in local elections, or by a territorial election commission – no later than five days of the day of the adoption of a decision on the calling of extraordinary or by- local elections, or – in the event a territorial election commission calls repeat local elections – simultaneously with its adoption of such decision.

The third paragraph was repealed.

9. In the event a territorial election commission fails to comply with the requirements of this Code (inaction of an election commission) as regards calling repeat or by- local elections, such elections may be called by the Central Election Commission within five days from the day when the inaction of the respective territorial election commission was established. In the event of inaction of a territorial election commission, a decision on the commencement of an election process may be made by the Central Election Commission.