Financial Support for Preparation and Conduct of Local Elections

1. Financing of the preparation for and conduct of ordinary and first local elections, as well as extraordinary and supplementary elections of local councils and village, settlement or city mayors, at the expense of funds of the respective local budget received as the targeted subvention from the State Budget of Ukraine, shall be provided by the territorial election commission which shall be the administrator of such funds, in accordance with an estimate of revenues and expenditures approved thereby, which shall include, in particular, expenditures relating to the lease (rent) of the respective premises, for the remuneration of commission members and persons involved in the work of the election commission, expenditures related to ensuring the exercise of the powers of election commissions, within the funds provided for the preparation and conduct of local elections in the State Budget of Ukraine.

The financing of the Central Election Commission as regards the preparation and conduct of the local elections shall be provided at the expense of funds of the State Budget.

The financing of the production by the State Voter Register maintenance bodies of voter lists and personal invitations for voters during the conduct of ordinary, extraordinary, supplementary and first elections of local councils or village, settlement or city mayors shall be provided at the expense of funds of the respective local budget received as the targeted subvention from the State Budget of Ukraine, in accordance with the procedure specified by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine upon submission of the Central Election Commission.

When holding all other types of local elections, the financing of the production by the State Voter Register maintenance bodies of voter lists and personal invitations for voters shall be provided at the expense of funds of the respective local budgets, in accordance with the procedure specified by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine upon submission of the Central Election Commission.

2. The Law “On the State Budget of Ukraine” shall provide, separately, for a targeted subvention from the State Budget to local budgets for preparation and conduct of ordinary, extraordinary, supplementary and first local elections.


3. The distribution of subventions from the State Budget to local budgets for preparation and conduct of an ordinary local election shall be performed by the Central Election Commission in coordination with the central executive body implementing the state financial policy.


4. The Central Election Commission shall distribute subventions from the State Budget to local budgets for preparation and conduct of extraordinary, supplementary and first local elections in coordination with the central executive body implementing the state financial policy on the basis of the Resolution adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on calling extraordinary local election, as well as on the decisions adopted in the prescribed manner on calling first and supplementary local elections.

The territorial election commission shall within the average expenditure amounts approved by the Central Election Commission prepare an estimate of expenditures for preparation and conduct of extraordinary, supplementary and first local elections, with due consideration of the expenditures of precinct election commissions.

5. The Central Election Commission shall approve the average expenditure amounts of a territorial and precinct election commission for the preparation and conduct of local elections.


6. Within five days from the day of its establishment, the territorial election commission shall prepare, on the basis of the average expenditure amounts, a unified budget of revenues and expenditures for preparation and conduct of an ordinary local election which shall include its own expenditures, as well as the expenditures to cover the needs of the precinct election commissions.


7. Election commissions shall be financed in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The funds for preparation and conduct of local elections shall be transferred to the Central Election Commission no later than the day of commencement of the election process, and to territorial election commissions, immediately after the approval of a unified budget of revenues and expenditures for preparation and conduct of ordinary local elections.


8. Within one week of the day of the official promulgation of the local election results, each territorial election commission shall return any funds which have not been spent by the territorial election commission on the preparation for and conduct of the elections, in accordance with the procedure established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.


9. Within ten days of the day of the official promulgation of the local election results, each territorial election commission shall draw up and submit to the respective local council a financial report on the receipt and use of the funds of the respective local budget received as a targeted subvention from the State Budget of Ukraine.


10. The control over purposeful use of the funds of the respective local budget received as a targeted subvention from the State Budget of Ukraine shall be exercised by the central executive body for the implementation of the state financial control, as well as the Accounting Chamber.


11. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine shall, before the end of the financial year, pay the accounts payable of a territorial election commission, in the time period after its financial report has been prepared and submitted, in the event the financing of the local election has not been completed, within funds of the respective local budget received as a targeted subvention from the State Budget of Ukraine.