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Article 16
 

Establishment of constituencies


1. A constituency shall be composed of polling districts with shared boundaries.


2. Elections to the Seimas shall be organized and held in the following territorial units:


1) in the multi-member constituency that coincides with the territory of the Republic of Lithuania;


2) in 71 single-member constituencies set up by the Central Electoral Commission on the basis of the number of voters in the constituency, the territorial division of the Republic of Lithuania into single-member constituencies applicable during the previous election to the Seimas, and the administrative division. The number of voters in the single-member constituency must stand between 0.9 and 1.1 of an average number of voters per single-member constituency.


3. Presidential elections shall be held in the single single-member constituency that coincides with the territory of the Republic of Lithuania.


4. Local elections shall be held in a multi-member constituency that coincides with the territory of a municipality. Mayoral elections shall be held in the single-member constituency that coincides with the territory of a municipality.


5. Elections to the European Parliament shall be held in the single multi-member constituency that coincides with the territory of the Republic of Lithuania.


6. The Central Electoral Commission shall establish and publish on its website, at least 210 days before the polling day, the list of polling districts that constitute the constituencies, the number of voters in each constituency, the addresses of the headquarters of the constituency electoral committees, and the geographic coordinates of the facilities housing the polling stations.