Establishing The Results of Elections of Village, Settlement, City Council (Territorial Community with up to 10,000 Voters), Elections of Village, Settlement, City Mayor

1. The territorial election commission shall establish the results of the voting in the respective local elections on the day of voting (the day of repeat voting) in the following order:

1) village, settlement, city (cities without rayon division) election commission – based on protocols of precinct election commissions on the counting of votes at election precincts for the respective local elections establishes:

a) results of the voting in elections of the village, settlement, city council - in multi-member districts;

b) results of the voting in the elections of a village, settlement, city mayor - in a unified single-member district;

2) a rayon in the city election commission (in cities where rayon in the city councils are formed) - based on protocols of precinct election commissions on the counting of votes at election precincts establishes voting results of elections of rayons in the city councils;

3) the rayon election commission based of the protocols of the village, settlement, city election commissions on the results of the voting shall establish the voting results on the elections of the rayon council in the respective multi-member districts;

4) the city election commission in the city with the rayon division – based on the protocols of the rayon in the city election commissions on the voting results establishes:

a) results of the voting in elections of the city council;

b) results of voting for the city mayor.

The protocols of precinct election commissions on the counting of votes at the election precinct and territorial election commissions on the results of the voting shall be adopted by the territorial election commission, which shall establish the results of the relevant local elections in accordance with Article 254 of this Code.

2. The respective territorial election commission based on the protocols specified in part one of this article (including protocols marked "Corrected"), and in case of a recount of votes – based on protocols of the relevant territorial election commission on a recount of votes at the election precinct, not later than on the twelfth day from the day of voting (and in case of repeated voting - not later than on the fifth day from the day of repeated voting) establishes the results of the voting in the relevant local elections of the village, settlement, city mayor, council members in multi-member districts on election day (day of repeat voting) and draws the protocol on this.

The following information shall be entered in numbers in the protocol on the results of the voting in the relevant multi-member, unified single-member district for the relevant local elections:

1) the number of ballot papers produced upon order of the election commission;

2) the number of ballot papers received by the precinct election commissions;

3) the number of the unused ballot papers invalidated by the precinct election commissions;

4) the number of voters included in the voter lists for election precincts;

5) the number of voters who received ballot papers;

6) the number of ballot papers at the election precincts that were not subject to counting;

7) the number of voters who took part in the voting;

8) the number of ballot papers declared invalid;

9) the number of votes cast for each candidate;

10) surname, first name (all first names) and patronymic (if any) of the candidate for the local council or candidate for the position of village, settlement, city mayor who received the largest number of votes, as well as the percentage of votes cast for him, in relation to the number of voters who took part in the voting in the respective district.

3. The protocol of the territorial election commission on the results of the voting in the election of a local council member in a multi-member district, village, settlement, the city mayor shall be drawn up in two copies. The minutes shall be signed by the chairman, deputy chairman, secretary, and other members of the election commission present at its meeting and certified by the seal of the commission. The protocol shall indicate the date and time (hour and minutes) of its signing by the members of the election commission. The protocol of the territorial election commission on the voting results may be prepared by technical means.

4. A member of the territorial election commission present at the meeting is obliged to sign the protocol on the results of the voting in the elections of local council members in a multi-member district, village, settlement, city mayor. In case of disagreement with the established voting results recorded in the protocol of the territorial election commission, a member of the territorial election commission shall sign the protocol marked "With a dissenting opinion." A written statement of a dissenting opinion shall be attached to the protocol on the results of the voting in the relevant local elections. If the protocol does not contain the signature of a member of the territorial election commission, the reason for the absence of the signature shall be indicated opposite his / her surname. Failure to sign the protocol by individual members of the election commission has no legal consequences for the validity of the protocol.

5. The first copy of the protocol may be signed by candidates, their proxies, representatives, authorized persons of party organizations, official observers who were present at the establishment of the results of the voting in the elections of council members in a multi-member district, village, town, city mayor.

6. The second copy of the protocol shall be immediately posted for public review on the premises of the territorial election commission.

7. A member of the respective territorial election commission, a candidate, his proxy, representative or authorized person of the party organization, official observer who was present at the meeting during the drawing up of the protocol shall immediately receive protocols (including marked "Corrected") at the rate of one copy of the protocol for a member of the commission, candidate, each party organization and one copy of the protocol for an official observer (a group of observers) from each public organization, foreign state or international organization. These copies shall be signed on each page by the chairman and secretary of the territorial election commission and sealed by the election commission. Copies of the protocol of the territorial election commission on the results of voting may be made by technical means.

8. If inaccuracies are found in it after signing the protocol, the territorial election commission at its meeting shall consider the issue of making changes to the protocol by drawing up a new protocol, which shall be marked "Corrected." The protocol marked "Corrected" is drawn up and signed in the manner and in the number of copies established by this article.