If none of the candidates for deputies of the local Council of Deputies was elected in the first round of elections in the electoral district, the territorial or district electoral commission or the territorial electoral commission that exercises in the district of the City of Minsk powers of district electoral commissions on elections of the Minsk City Council of Deputies shall take a decision on holding in the electoral district a second round of voting on the two candidates for deputies who received the greater number of votes of the electors in the first round of elections. Information on this decision shall be given to the electors of the district by the respective territorial or district electoral commission. The second round of voting shall be held not later than within a two-week period with the observance of the requirements of this Code.
Elections in the second round shall be acknowledged as having taken place if the voting has been attended by more than 25 per cent of the electors of the district included into the lists of citizens who have the right to take part in the elections. The candidate for deputy who received the greater number of votes of the electors who took part in the voting shall be acknowledged as elected.
In case when one of the candidates for deputies of the local Council of Deputies included into the ballot paper for the second round of voting has withdrawn his candidature, the second round of voting may be held with one candidate. In such case, the candidate for deputy who received more than half of the votes of the electors who took part in the voting shall be acknowledged as elected.
