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Article 19
 

Election Districts

1. Elections of the President of Ukraine are shall be conducted in one nationwide single-mandate election constituency that encompasses the entire territory of Ukraine.

2. In order to conduct the elections, the territory of Ukraine shall be divided into 225 territorial election districts. The number of such districts in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the oblasts, and cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol shall be determined by the Central Election Commission, taking into account their administrative-territorial structure and the number of voters on the basis of statistical data submitted by a central executive body in charge of statistics. A territorial election district shall include one or more districts [rayons], cities, and city districts [rayons in cities].

3. The decision to form territorial election districts shall be adopted by the Central Election Com­mis­sion no later than one hundred and ten days prior to the day of elections. Territorial election districts shall be formed with an approximately equal number of voters.

4. The list of territorial election districts, indicating their numbers, territorial boundaries and centers of the districts, shall be published by the Central Election Commission in official mass media within three days from the day it adopted the respective decision.