On the basis of the minutes from division referendum commissions, the city, (cities without rayon subdivisions), city rayon, settlement, and village referendum commission determines:
the general number of citizens who have the right to participate in a referendum, the number of citizens who received ballots;
the number of citizens who participated in voting;
the number of citizens who voted for approval of the draft of the law or resolution, and the number of citizens who voted against its approval;
the number of invalid ballots.
The appropriate commission shall review the results of the tabulation and enter them into the minutes and send them to the higher standing referendum commission. On the basis of submitted minutes the commission of the Republic of Crimea on the All-Ukrainian referendum, and oblast, rayon, city (cities with rayon subdivisions) referendum commissions shall tabulate votes within the administrative and territorial unit and enter the results into the minutes, and then shall send them to the higher standing referendum commission.
On the basis of minutes from oblast referendum commissions, the Central Commission on All-Ukrainian referendum determines the results of the All-Ukrainian referendum and enters them into the protocol.
When a local referendum is conducted within the oblast, rayon, city, city rayon, settlement and village council territory the appropriate referendum commission at its session shall determine its results and enter them into the protocol. The protocol with the vote tabulation results or referendum results shall be signed by the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Secretary and members of the appropriate referendum commission.
The appropriate referendum commission can announce referendum results void if violations of this Law have taken place during the voting or the tabulation of votes.
The draft of the law or resolution shall be considered approved if more than fifty percent of those citizens who participated in the referendum, voted for this law or resolution.
The referendum shall be considered not to be conducted if less than 50% of the citizens on the voter list participated in voting, and a referendum on pre-term termination of the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine shall be considered not conducted if less than two-thirds of the citizens on the voter list participated in it.
The results of the referendum shall be published by the appropriate commission no later than ten days after the referendum. The announcement shall include: the legal number of citizens who voted for support of the draft of the law, the resolution submitted to the referendum; and the number of citizens who voted against its approval; the number of void ballots.
