Repeat Voting for Members of Village, Settlement, City Council (Territorial Community with up to 10,000 Voters), Village, Settlement, City Mayor

1. A territorial election commission shall appoint a repeat voting in the respective election district if:

1) two or more candidates for local council members in a multi-member district, a village, settlement or city mayor received the largest and at the same time the same number of votes in their support;

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;

Repeat voting is scheduled for Sunday – within three weeks after the date of the decision to appoint repeat voting.

The territorial election commission shall inform the Central Election Commission, the relevant local council, the body maintaining the State Register of Voters and notify the public of the decision to hold repeat voting no later than the day after its adoption.

2. Preparation for and conduct of the repeat voting, the vote counting, and establishing the results of the elections in the respective election code shall be performed in accordance with the procedure stipulated by this Code, with peculiarities established by this Article.

3. The ballot paper for the repeat voting called in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of this Article shall include candidates for local council members in a multi-member district, a village, settlement or city mayor received the highest and at the same time an equal number of votes of voters except for candidates, who, following the day of voting, have refused from standing in the election.

4. The ballot paper for the repeat voting called in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of this Article shall include two candidates for a city mayor, who, based on the voting results in the election of a city mayor, who, as a result of voting in the mayoral election, received the largest number of votes, except for those candidates have refused from standing in the election.

5. The text of the ballot papers shall be approved by the territorial election commission simultaneously with the decision on calling the repeat voting.

6. If, no later than five days prior to the day of repeat voting, all candidates included on the ballot for repeat voting, but one, have refused from standing in the election as candidates, in accordance with clause 1 of Part one of Article 231 of this Code, or have withdrawn from the election in accordance with Part four of Article 231 of this Code, a territorial election commission shall adopt a decision to cancel the repeat voting and to recognize such candidate from among the candidates included on the ballot for repeat voting elected who did not file such an application.

7. For repeat voting, voter lists at regular election precincts shall be prepared by the bodies maintaining the State Register of Voters and submitted to precincts election commissions no later than two days before the day of repeat voting in accordance with the procedure established by this Code.

Voter lists for repeat voting at special election precincts established in inpatient health care facilities shall be prepared by the relevant precinct election commissions no later than two days before the day of repeat voting on the basis of information provided by the heads of these institutions.

The list of voters for repeat voting in elections of local council members in a multi-member district shall include only voters whose voting address belongs to the respective multi-member district.

The form of the voter list for repeat voting shall be established by the Central Election Commission.

Invitations shall be submitted by the bodies maintaining the State Register of Voters to the relevant precinct election commissions of ordinary election precincts no later than five days before the day of repeat voting.

The precinct election commission shall send or otherwise deliver to each voter a personal invitation no later than three days before the day of repeat voting.

8. Preparation for and conduct of the repeat voting shall be performed by precinct election commissions of the election precincts, having the same composition of the same members as the ones who conducted the voting in the respective election.