Establishing the Number of Mandates and Determining Council Members Elected in the Single Multi-Mandate Election District

1. The number of local council mandates to be distributed in the single multi-member election district shall be established by way of subtracting the number of mandates distributed in territorial districts from the total number of mandates equal to the number of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, city, rayon in the city, village, settlement council.

A local organization of a political party that has received the right to participate in the distribution of seats in the relevant local elections is guaranteed to receive one seat, which is distributed in order of priority according to the single electoral list approved by the party.

2. Based on the information specified in clause three of Part six of Article 258 of this Code, the territorial election commission shall establish the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the single multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of each party organization.

3. In order to determine the number of local council mandates received by the unified electoral list of candidates from the party organization, the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the single multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of candidates from the respective party organization, determined in accordance with Part two of this Article, shall be divided by the electoral quota determined in accordance with Part three of Article 257 of this Code. An integer of the received quotient shall deem a number of local council mandates to be granted to candidates included in the respective unified electoral list from this party organization. Fractional balances up to three decimal places shall be taken into consideration when distributing the remaining mandates in accordance with Part Four of this Article.

4. The party organizations, whose unified electoral lists have larger fractional balances, as a result of the division performed in accordance with Part three of this Article, shall receive one additional mandate each, starting from the unified electoral list of candidates of the party organization, which has obtained the larger fractional balance. If two or more electoral lists of party organizations’ candidates have equal fractional balances, the first to receive an additional mandate shall be the electoral list of the party organization, the candidates of which received the higher number of votes of voters in the single multi-member election district.

The distribution of additional mandates, which are determined in accordance with part one of this article and are subject to distribution in a single multi-member district, shall be deemed terminated after the total number of mandates has been exhausted.

5. The council members elected from the party organization shall deem candidates included in the unified electoral list of this party organization in the number that corresponds to the number of mandates determined in accordance with Parts three and four of this Article, according to the sequence of candidates in the unified electoral list of this party organization. In this case, the candidates that shall be deemed elected in the territorial election districts shall not be taken into account when distributing mandates in the single multi-member election district.

6. The territorial election commission shall enter the following information into the protocol of results of the election of local council, in numbers:

1) the number of mandates to be distributed in the single multi-member election district;

2) the total number of unused votes of voters cast in the single multi-member election district in support of the electoral list of candidates from each party organization, which takes part in the distribution of mandates, determined in accordance with part two of this article;

3) the number of mandates received by candidates included in the unified electoral list of candidates from each party organization, which takes part in the distribution of mandates, determined in accordance with parts three and four of this article.

If a person, in case of simultaneous voting in a unified single-member district for the election of a village, settlement, city mayor and a multi-member district for the election of local council is recognized as elected in a unified single-member constituency, such person may not be registered as a local council member.

7. The territorial election commission shall indicate the following information in the protocol of results of the election of local council members as regards each elected in the single multi-member election district:

1) last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if any);

2) year of birth;

3) educational attainment;

4) job position (occupation), place of employment;

5) party membership;

6) place of residence;

7) the single multi-member election, in which a council member was elected;

8) the name of the party, from which a council member was elected.

In the territorial electoral lists, it shall be necessary to put a mark, as regards local council members elected in the single multi-member election district, on them being elected in this district.