A Decision of a Territorial Election Commission Based on Voting Results in Elections of Village, Settlement, City Council (Territorial Community with up to 10,000 Voters) in a Multi-Member District

1. A village, settlement or city election commission in the respective elections of the village, settlement or city council (a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) shall, when establishing the results of elections in the respective multi-member election district, adopt one of the following decisions:

1) to recognize local council members as elected in the respective multi-member election district;

2) to appoint a repeat voting in the respective multi-member election district;

3) to declare the election in the respective multi-member election district invalid;

4) on calling repeat elections in a multi-member district in respect of the number of remaining seats.

2. The territorial election commission in the respective election shall recognize those council members elected in the multi-member election district (in the number that is equal to the number of mandates in the multi-member election district) who, based on the voting results in the respective multi-member election district obtained the highest number of votes of voters, compared to other candidates registered in the same election district.

3. In the event, if based on the voting results in the respective multi-member election district, two or more candidates for local council, who have received the same number of votes, shall be entitled to claim the last mandate available in this election district, the territorial election commission shall adopt a decision to appoint a repeat voting as regards those candidates.

4. If according to the results of the voting in the respective multi-member district, the number of council members elected is smaller than the number of seats in that district, the territorial election commission shall decide to call repeat elections in that district regarding those seats that remain vacant.

5. If only one candidate was in the ballot paper in a multi-member district, the candidate should be considered elected if more than half of the votes of the voters who took part in the voting are cast for him.

6. If there are grounds specified in Article 280 of this Code, the territorial election commission shall make a decision to recognize the election as failed and to call repeat elections of the village, settlement, city council (a territorial community with up to 10,000 voters) in the relevant multi-member district;