§ Art. I-5Day of Voting

1. The day on which the election is held is the day of voting in this election (election day).
The day of voting in the election (the day of repeat voting) shall be Sunday.
 Extraordinary local elections, by-, first and supplementary elections shall be held twice in a year,
on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October.
 If the last Sunday in March or the last Sunday in October, on which the extraordinary, by-, first or
supplementary local elections are scheduled, falls on a public holiday or a religious holiday determined
as a day-off in accordance with the labor law, such elections are postponed to take place the following
Sunday.
 In a year when ordinary local elections shall be held, all local elections take place once a year on
the day of ordinary local elections – the last Sunday in October of the fifth year of the terms of office
of local councils and of village, settlement or city mayors elected in the last ordinary local elections.
 2. The day of voting in an election shall be determined in accordance with the Constitution
of Ukraine and this Code. In the cases determined by the Constitution of Ukraine, this Code or the
law, the day of voting in the election shall be determined by the subject of appointing the election.
 3. For certain types of elections, this Code provides for a day of repeat voting.

 

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