TrustVoting Atlas

1. Elections of members of the village, settlement and city councils (for cities with less than
10,000 voters), or city rayon councils shall be held in accordance with the system of relative
majority in multi-member election districts, which are created in the territory of the respective
territorial community. No less than two and no more than four council members shall be elected
in each of the election districts.
 2. The elections of members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,
as well as the elections of members of the oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village, settlement

 

councils (of territorial communities with 10,000 or more voters), shall be held based on the system
of proportional representation by using open electoral lists of candidates for local council members
(hereinafter, electoral lists) in multi-member election districts, into which the unified multi-
member election district shall be divided, which coincides with the territory, respectively, of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an oblast, rayon, rayon in city, city, village or settlement in
accordance with the administrative-territorial structure or the territory of a city, village or
settlement territorial community.
 3. The election of a village, settlement or city mayor (cities with less than 75,000 voters) shall
be held based on the relative majority plurality electoral system in a single village, settlement or
city election district, which coincides with the territory, respectively, of a village, settlement or
city, in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure, or the territory of a village,
settlement or city territorial community.
 4. The election of a city mayor (cities with 75,000 or more voters) shall be held based on the
absolute majority plurality electoral system in a single city election district, which coincides with
the territory of a city, in accordance with the administrative-territorial structure, or with the
territory of a city territorial community.
 5. The electoral system, under which elections of members of city, village or settlement council
or city mayor are held, is determined based on the number of voters who have the right to vote in the
respective local elections as of the first day of the month preceding the month in which the election
process of the respective local election begins.
 Information on the number of voters entitled to vote in elections of members of city, village or
settlement council and/or mayor, as well as on the electoral system under which the respective elections
are to be held in accordance with parts one to four of this article shall be published by the Central
Election Commission on its official website no later than five days before the day of the election process
of the respective ordinary, extraordinary, or first elections of members of the city, village or settlement
council and/or mayor.
 The electoral system under which the elections of members of the city, village, settlement council
and/or mayor are conducted, previously determined in accordance with this part, may not be changed
due to a change in the number of voters eligible to vote in the respective local elections before the
appointment of the next ordinary or extraordinary elections in such city, village or settlement or the
respective territorial community.
 6. Supplementary elections of members of village and settlement councils shall be held according
to the relative majority plurality system in the multi-member election districts, into which the territory
of a territorial community that has joined another village or settlement territorial community is divided.