A Decision of a Territorial Election Commission Based on Voting Results in Elections of Village, Settlement and City Mayor
A village, settlement or city election commission based on the protocol on the results of the voting in the elections of a village, settlement or city mayor shall make one of the following decisions:
1) to declare a person elected as village, settlement or city mayor;
2) to appoint repeat voting for an election of a village, settlement or city mayor;
3) to declare an election of a village, settlement or city mayor as not having taken place and to appoint repeat elections because of this.
The territorial election commission of the respective elections shall declare elected as village, settlement or city mayor (of a city with up to 75,000 people) the candidate who received the highest number of votes compared to other candidates.
A city (of a city with 75,000 or more voters) territorial election commission based on the results of voting on election day shall declare elected as mayor the candidate supported by more than half of the votes of voters who took part in the voting.
If, as a result of voting on election day, two or more candidates received the largest and, at the same time, an equal number of votes, a territorial election commission shall decide to call a repeat voting for these candidates.
If only one candidate was included in the ballot paper for the election of village, settlement or city mayor, he or she shall be declared elected if the number of votes cast for him or her exceeds 50 percent of the number of voters who took part in the voting.
The city (in a city with 75,000 or more voters) territorial election commission decides to hold a repeat voting if more than two mayoral candidates were included in the ballot for the mayoral election, and none of the candidates received more than half of the votes cast on the election day.
If there are grounds specified in Article 280 of this Code, a territorial election commission shall make a decision to declare the election as not having taken place and to call repeat elections of a village, settlement or city mayor.
