Establishing Number of Seats and Determining Council Members Elected in the Unified Multi-Member Election District
- The number of council seats to be distributed in the unified multi-member election district shall be established by way of subtracting the number of seats distributed in territorial districts from the total number of seats equal to the number of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or an oblast, rayon, city, rayon in city, village or settlement council.
A local organization of a political party that has received the right to participate in the distribution of seats in the respective local elections is guaranteed to receive one seat, which is distributed in order of priority according to the unified electoral list approved by the party.
- Based on the information specified in clause three of Part six of Article 258 of this Code, the territorial election commission shall establish the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the unified multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of each party organization.
- In order to determine the number of local council seats received by a unified electoral list of candidates from a party organization, the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the unified multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of candidates from the respective party organization, determined in accordance with Part two of this Article, shall be divided by the electoral quota determined in accordance with Part three of Article 257 of this Code. An integer of the received quotient shall be deemed the number of council seats to be granted to candidates included in the respective unified electoral list from this party organization. Fractional reminders up to three decimal places shall be taken into consideration when distributing the remaining seats in accordance with Part Four of this Article.
- Party organizations, whose unified electoral lists have larger fractional reminders, as a result of the division performed in accordance with Part three of this Article, shall receive one additional mandate each beginning with the unified electoral list of candidates of the party organization, which has obtained the larger fractional reminder. If two or more electoral lists of party organizations’ candidates have equal fractional reminders, the first to receive an additional mandate shall be the electoral list of the party organization, the candidates of which received the higher number of votes of voters in the unified multi-member election district.
The distribution of additional seats, which are determined in accordance with part one of this article and are subject to distribution in the unified multi-member district, shall be deemed terminated after the total number of seats has been exhausted.
- The council members elected from a party organization shall be deemed the candidates included in the unified electoral list of this party organization in a number that corresponds to the number of seats determined in accordance with Parts three and four of this Article, according to the sequence of candidates in the unified electoral list of this party organization. In this case, the candidates that are deemed elected in the territorial election districts shall not be taken into account when distributing seats in the unified multi-member election district.
- The territorial election commission shall in figures enter the following information in the protocol of the results of the election of local council:
1) the number of seats to be distributed in the unified multi-member election district;
2) the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the unified multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of candidates from each party organization, which takes part in the distribution of seats, determined in accordance with part two of this article;
3) the number of seats received by candidates included in the unified electoral list of candidates from each party organization, which takes part in the distribution of seats, determined in accordance with parts three and four of this article.
If a person, in case of simultaneous voting in a unified single-member district for the election of village, settlement or city mayor and a multi-member district for the election of a local council, is recognized as elected in the unified single-member election district, such person may not be registered as a council member.
- The territorial election commission shall indicate the following information in the protocol of results of the elections of council members as regards each elected in the unified multi-member election district:
1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic names (if any);
2) year of birth;
3) educational background;
4) job position (occupation), place of employment;
5) party membership;
6) place of residence;
7) the unified multi-member election, in which a council member was elected; 8)the name of the party, from which a council member was elected.
In territorial electoral lists it shall be necessary to put a mark as regards local council members elected in the unified multi-member election district on them being elected in this district.
