Repeat Voting for Members of Village, Settlement and City Council (of a Territorial Community with up to 10,000 Voters), or for Village, Settlement and City Mayor
- A territorial election commission shall appoint repeat voting in the respective election district if:
1) in the election district on the day of voting two or more candidates for local council or for village, settlement or city mayor received the largest and, at the same time, an equal number of votes in their support;
2) two candidates for a city mayor (in a city with 75,000 and more voters) were included in the ballot on the day of voting, 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;
Repeat voting shall be scheduled on a Sunday – within three weeks after the date of the decision to appoint repeat voting.
The territorial election commission shall inform the Central Election Commission, the respective local council and the State Voter Register maintenance body and notify the public of the decision to hold repeat voting no later than the day after its adoption.
- Preparation for and conduct of repeat voting, the vote counting, and the establishment of the results of the voting and the results of the respective elections in the respective election district shall be performed in accordance with the procedure stipulated by this Code, with the peculiarities established by this Article.
- A ballot paper for repeat voting called in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of this Article shall include the candidates for local council in a multi-member district or village, settlement or city mayor who received the highest and, at the same time, an equal number of votes of voters except for candidates, who, following the day of voting, have withdrawn.
- A ballot paper for repeat voting called in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of this Article shall include the two candidates for a city mayor, who, based on the voting results in the election of a city mayor, received the largest number of votes, except for those candidates who after the day of voting have withdrawn.
- The text of the ballot papers shall be approved by the territorial election commission simultaneously with the decision on the calling the repeat voting.
- If no later than five days prior to the day of repeat voting all candidates included on the ballot for repeat voting except one have applied to withdraw in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of Article 231 of this Code, or have been withdrawn in accordance with Part four of Article 231 of this Code, a territorial election commission shall adopt a decision to cancel the repeat voting and to declare the candidate, who among the candidates included in the ballot for repeat voting elected did not file the said application, elected.
- For repeat voting, voter lists at regular election precincts shall be prepared by the State Voter Register maintaining bodies and submitted to precincts election commissions no later than two days before the day of repeat voting in accordance with the procedure established by this Code.
Voter lists for repeat voting at special election precincts established in inpatient health care facilities shall be prepared by the respective precinct election commissions no later than two days before the day of repeat voting on the basis of information provided by the heads of these institutions.
The list of voters for repeat voting in elections of local council members in a multi-member district shall include only voters whose electoral address belongs to the respective multi-member district.
The form of the voter list for repeat voting shall be established by the Central Election Commission.
Invitations shall be submitted by the State Voter Register maintenance bodies to the respective precinct election commissions of ordinary election precincts no later than five days before the day of repeat voting.
The precinct election commission shall send or otherwise deliver to each voter a personal invitation no later than three days before the day of repeat voting.
- Preparation for and conduct of repeat voting shall be performed by precinct election commissions of election precincts, having the same composition of the same members as the ones who conducted the voting in the respective elections.
