§ Art. I-27Territorial Election Districts

1. The Central Election Commission shall create territorial election districts (hereinafter,
territorial districts) that shall exist on a permanent basis for preparation, administration and conduct
of national elections.
 The procedure for the creation of such territorial districts, changes of their boundaries and centers
shall be established by the Central Election Commission.
 2. Territorial districts shall be created within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the
oblasts, and the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol.
 3. The boundaries of territorial districts shall be defined with due consideration of the
boundaries of administrative-territorial units.
 It shall not be allowed to create a territorial district from territories that are not contiguous to
 each other.
 4. A territorial district shall be defined by the territory, within which the election precincts
that are part of it are located.
 5. A center of the territorial district is the administrative-territorial unit at the location of the
district election commission.
 In exceptional cases, in order to ensure the proper organization of the work of the district
election commission, its location may be changed by the Central Election Commission and may be
established outside the boundaries of the respective territorial district.
 6. When forming a territorial district, a decision with regard to its center shall be made.
 7. The boundaries and center of a territorial district shall be changed by the Central Election
Commission.