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Article 89
 

Establishment of the Results of Elections of Deputies of Local Councils of Deputies for the Electoral District

 

On the basis of the records received from the precinct electoral commission(s) and compiled in accordance with the requirements of Article 55 of this Code, the territorial or district electoral commission shall determine:

the total number of electors for the district;

the number of electors who have received ballot papers;

the number of electors who have taken part in the voting;

the number of votes given for and the number of votes given against each candidate for deputy;

the number of ballot papers recognised as invalid;

the number of ballot papers issued to the precinct electoral commissions;

the number of spoiled ballot papers; and

the number of unused ballot papers.

 

The candidate elected in the first round of elections in the electoral district shall be the candidate for deputies who received at the elections more than half of the votes of the electors who took part in the voting provided the elections have been recognised as having taken place.

 

Elections shall be acknowledged as having taken place if the voting has been attended by more than half of the electors of the district included into the list of citizens who have the right to take part in elections.

 

The territorial or district electoral commission may recognise elections as invalid if violations of the requirements of this Code were made in the course of elections or during the count of votes or determination of the results of elections that influenced the results of the elections. A complaint about such violation shall be submitted to the territorial or district electoral commission not later than on the day following the day of elections.

 

The territorial or district electoral commission shall establish at its sitting the results of elections for the each electoral district and record the results in the minutes. The chairman, the deputy chairman, the secretary and the members of commission shall sign the minutes.

 

The district electoral commission on elections of the Oblast Council of Deputies and the territorial electoral commission that exercises in a district of the City of Minsk powers of district electoral commissions for elections to the Minsk City Council of Deputies shall, not later than three days after the end of the voting, hand over the record respectively to the Oblast or the Minsk City territorial electoral commission and the bodies that formed the commission for information. The chairman of the deputy chairman or the secretary of the commission shall hand over the record in person. The record forwarded to the Oblast or the Minsk City territorial commission shall enclose, if any, special opinions of the members of the commission, statements of the proxies of the candidates for deputies and of other persons on violations of the requirements of this Code and decisions taken on them by the respective district or territorial electoral commission.

 

The territorial electoral commissions on elections to the regional, town, settlement and rural Councils of Deputies shall hand over the records on the results of the elections to the bodies that formed the commission for information.

 

In case when the bodies that formed the commission detects violations of the requirements of this Code and of other legislative acts of the Republic of Belarus made in the course of the voting or during the count of votes, this fact shall be immediately notified to the Central Commission.

 

In case of detection of mistakes and irregularities in the records of the precinct and the territorial or district electoral commissions as well as of other violations committed in the course of voting or during the count of votes the superior territorial electoral commission shall have the right to take a decision on a new count of votes by the respective territorial or district electoral commission. A new count of votes of the electors shall be made by the territorial or district electoral commission in the presence of a member (members) of the superior territorial electoral commission and, if required, of the precinct electoral commissions as well.