Territorial Organization of Elections of Members of Village, Settlement, City (for territorial communities with less than 10,000 Voters) or Rayons in the City Councils

1. A system of territorial organization of elections of members of the village, settlement or city (for territorial communities with less than 10,000 voters) or rayons in the city councils consists of:

1) multi-member election districts;

2) election precincts.

2. In order to elect members of the village, settlement, city councils (for territorial communities with less than 10,000 voters), the territory of the respective community shall be divided into multi-member election districts. A tentative average number of such multi-member election districts shall be determined as a quotient obtained as a result of the division of the quantitative composition of the respective council by three. When establishing multi-member election districts, the deviation from their tentative average number shall be no more than one district.

3. Multi-member election districts shall include approximately the same number of voters in relation to the seats that are distributed in such constituencies. A deviation of the number of voters in a multi-member election district established within the territory of a village, settlement, or city or city rayon may not exceed 15 percent of the tentative average number of voters in the district. A tentative average number of voters in the district shall be determined as a quotient obtained as a result of the division of the total number of voters established in accordance with the data of the State Voter Register by the number of multi-member election districts.

4. Multi-mandate election districts in the election of a village, settlement or city (for territorial communities with less than 10,000 voters) shall be created by a territorial election commission in the respective election no later than the second day of the election process, in compliance with the principle of continuity of boundaries (adjacency of territories) of such districts.

5. When establishing multi-member election districts, a territorial election commission in the respective election shall determine the territory of each district. Each district shall be assigned its own number.

6. Boundaries of a multi-member election district shall not cross the boundaries of regular election precincts.

7. When establishing multi-member election districts, a territorial election commission shall establish the number of mandates that will have to be distributed in each such district, based on the principle of equality of votes of voters that shall allow for a deviation from a tentative average number of voters per the mandate of no more than 15 percent. A tentative average number of voters per mandate shall be determined as a quotient obtained as a result of the division of the total number of voters established in accordance with the data of the State Voter Register by the quantitative composition of the respective local council.

8. A list of established multi-member election districts shall be published no later than on the following day after the adoption of a decision on the establishment thereof in the manner determined by the territorial election commission.

9. The approximate average number of voters in multi-member districts formed for the election of members of the village, settlement, city councils (territorial communities with up to 10,000 voters) is determined by the territorial election commission on the basis of the State Register of Voters on the number of eligible voters in relevant local elections submitted by the body, maintaining the State Register of Voters to the territorial election commission not later than five days before the day of the beginning of the election process of the relevant local elections.

The number of voters eligible to vote in the respective local elections shall be determined as of the first day of the month preceding the month in which the election process of the respective local elections begins.