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Article 46
 

Determining Election Results in the Election Constituency

1. Constituency (territorial) election commission shall, on the basis of minutes of the polling station election commissions regarding the voting results, determine:

1) general number of voters in election constituency;

2) number of voters who received election ballots;

3) number of voters who voted;

4) number of election ballots declared void;

5) number of votes cast in favor of each candidate for deputy, for the position of village, settlement, city chairman;

6) number of votes of those voters who did not support any of the candidates.

2. A candidate for deputy, a candidate for the position of village, settlement, city chairman who received on elections the greatest, compared to other candidates, number of votes cast, shall be deemed elected in single-mandate election constituency.

3. If only one candidate was nominated in single-mandate election constituency, he/she shall be deemed elected if the majority of voters, who took part in the voting, voted "for" him/her.

4. Candidates in multi-mandate election constituency, who received a greater, compared to other candidates, number of votes cast, shall be deemed elected. With that, the general number of elected candidates cannot exceed the number of deputy mandates determined for the given election constituency.

5. In the event that two or more candidates acquired the largest and at the same time the same number of votes, the constituency (territorial) election commission shall adopt a decision to conduct repeat voting on these candidatures, which is to be held no later than within a two-week term after the day of elections according to order, established by this Law.

6. The constituency (territorial) election commission may declare elections in election constituency as such that were not conducted if voting was not held due to resignation of all registered candidates or for other reasons.

7. Voting and election results in the election constituency shall be determined at the session of constituency (territorial) election commission and entered in the minutes which shall be made in three copies following the form established by the Central Election Commission. The minutes shall be signed by the chairman, deputy chairman, secretary, and by members of constituency (territorial) election commission. The first copy of minutes along with the envelopes with election ballots shall be immediately delivered to the territorial election commission, the second one shall be at once posted in the premises of constituency (territorial) election commission for general familiarization, and the third one shall be stored in the records of constituency (territorial) election commission.