Grounds for Calling Repeat Voting

287. A territorial election commission may adopt a decision to declare the elections of local council members in a multi-member district, village, settlement, city mayor invalid, and a decision to call a repeat voting if:

1) only one candidate was included on the ballot for the election or for the repeat voting of local council members in a multi-member district, a village, settlement or city mayor and the number of votes of voters cast to support him or her constitutes no more than 50 percent of the number of voters who took part in the voting;

2) two candidates for a city mayor were included on the ballot in the election of a city mayor (for cities with 75,000 and more voters), and, based on the voting results, none of the candidates received in their support more than half of the votes of voters who took part in the voting;

3) two or more candidates were included in the ballot paper for voting on the day of repeat voting, and according to the results of repeat voting two or more candidates received the largest and at the same time the same number of votes in their support;

4) as a result of the election in a multi-member district, there are vacant mandates (the number of persons elected in a multi-member district is less than the number of seats distributed in this constituency). Repeat voting in such a constituency shall be called with the number of seats remaining vacant

5) as of the day of voting, there are no candidates for the local council, candidates for the position of the village, settlement, city mayor left in the ballot paper;

6) voting on the day of voting (the day of repeat voting) was declared invalid or was not organized and conducted in accordance with this Code at all election precincts of the relevant district;

7) a person after his / her election has not acquired a local council mandate, powers of a village, settlement, city mayor in accordance with the procedure established by this Code, on the grounds specified in paragraphs 3-6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code;

8) a person elected a village, settlement, city mayor was recognized as having renounced the mandate, the position of the village, settlement, city mayor;

9) the election process of local elections was suspended due to the imposition of martial law or a state of emergency in Ukraine or in certain localities.

2. The territorial election commission may adopt a decision to declare the elections the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, rayon in the city, as well as city, village, settlement councils (territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters) invalid, and a decision to call a repeat voting if:

1) there is not a single electoral list of the party organization in the single multi-member district on the ballot paper on the day of voting;

2) based on the election results, it is impossible to form 2/3 of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the respective local council;

3) the election process of local elections was suspended due to the imposition of martial law or a state of emergency in Ukraine or in certain localities.