Basic Principles of Local Elections

1. The elections of members of the village, settlement and city councils (for cities with less than 10,000 voters), or city rayon councils shall be held in accordance with the system of relative majority in multi-member election districts, which are created in the territory of a respective territorial community. No less than two and no more than four council members shall be elected in each of the election districts.

2. The elections of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the elections of members of the oblast, rayon, rayon in the city, city, village, settlement councils (for territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters), shall be held based on the system of proportional representation by using open electoral lists of candidates for local council members (hereinafter, electoral lists) in multi-member election districts, into which a multi-member election district shall be divided, which coincides with the territory, respectively, of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, rayon in the city, city, village or settlement in accordance with the administrative and territorial organization, or the territory of the city, village, settlement territorial community.

3. The election of the village, settlement or city (for cities with less than 75,000 voters) mayors shall be held based on the electoral system of relative majority in a single village, settlement or city election district, which coincides with the territory, respectively, of the village, settlement or city, in accordance with the administrative and territorial organization, or the territory of the village, settlement or city territorial community.

4. The election of a city (for cities with 75,000 or more voters) mayor shall be held based on the majoritarian system of an absolute majority in a single city election district, which coincides with the territory of the city, in accordance with the administrative and territorial organization, or with the territory of the city territorial community.

5. The electoral system, under which elections of members of city, village, settlement council, and city mayor are held, is determined based on the number of voters who have the right to vote in the relevant local elections, as of the first day of the month preceding the month in which the election process of the respective local elections begins.

Information on the number of voters entitled to vote in elections of members of city, village, settlement council and/or mayor, as well as on the electoral system under which the relevant elections are to be held in accordance with parts one to four of this article shall be published by the Central Election Commission on its official website no later than five days before the day of the election process of the relevant regular, extraordinary, first elections of members of the city, village, settlement council and/or mayor.

The electoral system under which the elections of members of the city, village, settlement council and/or mayor, which was previously determined in accordance with this part, may not be changed due to a change in the number of voters eligible to vote in the relevant local elections before the appointment the next regular or extraordinary elections in such city, village, settlement or the corresponding territorial community.

6. Supplementary elections of members of village and settlement councils shall be held in accordance with the system of relative majority in multi-member election districts, into which the territory of a territorial community that has joined another village, settlement, the territorial community is divided.