Grounds for Calling Repeat Elections

1. A territorial election commission may adopt a decision to declare the elections of local council members in a multi-member district or a village, settlement or city mayor as such that have not taken place, and a decision to call repeat elections if:

1) only one candidate was included on the ballot for the day of elections or for the day of repeat voting of local council members in a multi-member district or a village, settlement or city mayor and the number of votes of voters cast in his or her support of him constitutes no more than 50 percent of the number of voters who took part in the voting;

2) two candidates for city mayor were included in the ballot in the election of a city mayor (of city with 75,000 and more voters), and, based on the voting results, none of the candidates received in their support more than half of the votes of voters who took part in the voting;

3) two or more candidates were included in the ballot for voting on the day of repeat voting, and according to the results of the repeat voting, two or more candidates received the largest and, at the same time, an equal number of votes in their support;

4) as a result of the elections in a multi-member district there are vacant seats (the number of persons elected in a multi-member district is less than the number of seats distributed in this election district). Repeat elections in such election district shall be called for the number of seats remaining vacant;

5) as of the day of voting there are no candidates for local council or candidates for the position of a village, settlement or city mayor left in the ballot paper;

6) the voting on the day of voting (the day of repeat voting) was declared invalid or was not organized and held in accordance with this Code at all election precincts of the respective district;

7) a person after his or her election did not obtain the local council seat or the powers of a village, settlement or city mayor in accordance with the procedure established by this Code, on the grounds specified in paragraphs 3 to 6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code;

8) a person elected as village, settlement or city mayor is considered having renounced his or her seat or the position of village, settlement or city mayor;

9) the election process of local elections was suspended due to the imposition of martial law or a state of emergency in Ukraine or in certain localities of it.

2. The territorial election commission may adopt a decision to declare elections to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or oblast, rayon, rayon in city, as well as city, village or settlement councils (of territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters) such that have not taken place, and a decision to call a repeat elections if:

1) there is not a single electoral list of a party organization left on the ballot in the unified multi-member election district on the day of voting;

2) based on the election results, it is impossible to form two-thirds of the composition of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the respective local council;

3) the election process of local elections was suspended due to the imposition of martial law or a state of emergency in Ukraine or in certain localities of it.