Requirements to Ballot Papers for Certain Types of Local Elections

1. In the ballot paper for voting in a territorial election district within a unified multi-member district for the election of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, rayon in the city, as well as city, village, settlement council (a territorial community with 10,000 or more voters) the names of party organizations shall be placed in the order of their numbers determined by drawing lots conducted by the relevant territorial election commission in accordance with the procedure established by the Central Election Commission, with the participation of representatives of party organizations in the relevant election commission, candidates, authorized persons of party organizations in a unified multi-member election district following the end of registration of candidates for local councils until the approval of the text of the ballot. The ordinal number of the party organization, determined by the results of the draw, may not be changed during the respective election process.

In the ballot paper in one row, alternately from left to right:

1) the number of each party organization determined by lot;

2) the full name of the relevant party organization, surname, name and patronymic of the candidate included in the unified electoral list under the first number without specifying the number;

3) two squares: an empty square - for expressing the will of the party organization and a square with a stencil - for expressing the will of the candidates included in the respective territorial electoral list of the party organization;

4) electoral list with surnames, initials of all candidates and their ordinal numbers in a stencil format from top to bottom, according to which they are included in the relevant territorial electoral list of the party organization, in two columns.

2. In the ballot paper for voting in a multi-member district for elections of members of city, village, settlement council (a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters), in a unified single-member district for elections of village, settlement, city mayor, the candidates have the ordinal numbers corresponding the alphabetical order of their surnames, first names (all proper names) and patronymic (if any), the subject of the nomination of the candidate, if the candidate is nominated by self-nomination, shall be marked "self-nominated," information on year of birth, position, place of residence. To the right of the ordinal number and surname of each candidate is an empty square.