The order for the election of deputies of the Senate of Parliament of a new convocation at early elections

1. Electoral campaign at elections of deputies of the Senate of the new convocation in case of conduct of early election, except for the conduct of voting, establishment of the election results and determination of the term of office of the Senate deputies, shall be conducted according to this Constitutional Act.

2. Voting at elections of the deputies of Senate of the new convocation at the joint session of electors - deputies of maslikhats of the oblast (city of the republican status, the capital) shall be conducted simultaneously for two mandates of the Senate deputies.

3. The territorial election commission shall distribute all registered candidates in the ballot in the alphabetic order. Two empty spaces to mark votes for any candidate shall be placed to the right of the candidates’ surnames. One empty space shall be fixed to mark a candidate to be elected for the six year term and the other empty space for a candidate to be elected for the three year term.

4. At voting the elector shall put any mark in two empty spaces to the right of surnames of those candidates for whom he/she casts the vote, accordingly, one mark in the empty space for the election for six years and the other mark in the empty space for the election for three years.

5. Vote count and determination of the results shall be conducted separately in two mandates of the Senate deputies.

6. The candidates who have received more than fifty percent of votes of the total number of electors who have taken part in voting shall be considered as elected at elections of the Senate deputies of the new convocation.

7. If the Senate deputies have not been elected in the first run of voting, the voting shall be rerun. The rerun of a vote shall be conducted under different ballots, one ballot for voting for the candidate to be elected for six years and the other for the candidate to be elected for three years. The ballot shall include two candidates who have received the majority of votes of electors who have taken part in voting. The candidate who has received the larger number of votes of the electors in comparison with the other candidate shall be considered as elected.