1. Suffrage and
Electoral System
Danyleiko Anastasia Dubyhvist Kateryna
Marina Sadova
Group 1, year 3, CEF

2. Elections is a method of forming a public
authority, local authority or empowerment of
the officer by a vote unauthorised persons
and determining the results of the voting
established by a majority vote of those
persons, provided that the obtaining of each
mandate are eligible to run for two or more
candidates
Alternative requirement is important
because not only defines the democratic
character of the elections, but also allows
you to separate the election of appointment
exercised a collective body.

3. The social purpose of elections
Elections are the basic tenets of the state mechanism
and local government
Elections is the means of legitimizing power. It allows
people determine their representatives in government
and local government, gives them a mandate to carry
out in a constitutional limits of their sovereign rights
Elections play a decisive role in shaping the political elite
of society

4. Suffrage
Unbiased
suffrage
Subjective
suffrage

5. Unbiased suffrage is an institution of
constitutional law, made ​​up of law by which
regulated social relations associated with the
election of state and local governments
• principles of electoral law;
requirements of voters and candidates;
procedure of the formation and activities of
the election administration;
procedure of nomination and registration of
candidates, voter status and other
participants in the electoral process;
procedure campaigning and voting;
procedure for determining the election
results and more.
Standards
Institute
suffrage
set:

6. Sources suffrage as an institution of constitutional law are:
1. The Constitution of Ukraine, in particular its Chapter
III, "Elections. Referendum, "and other relevant provisions of the
section devoted to the procedure of elections of the President of
Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2. Laws of Ukraine:
"On the Election of the President of Ukraine" as amended by Law
of 18.03.2004 № 1630-IV;
"On elections" from 07.07.2005 № 2777-IV;
"On the Central Election Commission" from 30.06.2004 № 1932-
IV.
3. Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine regarding the
interpretation of the election laws of Ukraine and determine its
constitutionality, for example, on 03.07.2003 in the case of time to
appeal violations during the vote count and tabulation, Judgment
of 30.01.2002 in the case of election pledge and others.

7. 4. Subordinate regulations. Feature of suffrage of the Ukraine is that the
bulk of its provisions is fixed at the level of the Constitution and laws of
Ukraine, and regulations governed only procedural matters of the
organization and conduct of elections. Such regulations may, for
example, include the Guidelines on the procedure for collecting
signatures in support of a candidate for President of Ukraine, approved
by the Central Election Commission of 06.07.2004 № 145.
5. International treaties that set standards on generally accepted
principles of citizen participation in elections and ratified by the
government of Ukraine. Thus, the general principles of citizen
participation in elections are fixed in the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights 1966., European standards elections of local self-
government - the European Charter of Local Self-Government 1985. and
so on.

8. Subjective suffrage - is enshrined in the Constitution and
state-guaranteed right of citizens to freely elect and be
elected to elective bodies of state power and local self-
government
Active - the
right to vote Passive - the
right to be
elected
Citizens under the Constitution who are in active suffrage, called electors, and
the set of voters within the constituency or Ukraine is electorate (voters)

9. Type the electorate (voters)
legal
set of registered voters (included in the voter list)
actual
set of voters who voted in the election
potential
Registered as a set, and because of any reason unregistered
voters.

10. Basic principles of electoral law enshrined in Article
71 of the Constitution of Ukraine. These principles
are:
principle
of free
elections
principle
of
universal
suffrage
principle
of equal
suffrage
principle
of direct
suffrage
principle
of secret
ballot

11. Basic principles of electoral law
1) the principle of free elections means that each voter
independently without any outside influence decide - to
take him to participate in the elections or not, and how
to do this. The principle of compulsory vote (legal
obligation of voters to vote) in Ukraine does not apply in
determining the election results do not take into
account that some voters took part in the vote -
elections shall be deemed to have occurred if at least
one vote voter;

12. 2) the principle of universal suffrage provides voting rights to all citizens
of Ukraine and the lack of legal requirements that would restrict
participation in the election of any public groups. However, universal
suffrage does not mean that the voting rights available to all residents of
Ukraine. The Constitution and laws set specific franchise, that special
conditions required to obtain subjective suffrage. By franchise include:
requirement of citizenship - voting rights are given only to citizens
of Ukraine , foreigners and stateless persons residing in Ukraine ;
age limit - active suffrage become citizens of Ukraine who on
election day at least eighteen years of age;
limit capacity - have the right to vote and to be elected citizens
declared incompetent by a court ;
residency requirement provided for in the local elections - to vote
in local elections, citizens of Ukraine residing on the territory of
the villages, cities, districts in cities;

13. 3) the principle of equal suffrage, which means
ensuring equal to each voter to influence the outcome
of elections. This principle follows from the more
general constitutional principle of equality, applies to
both active and passive suffrage in;
4) the principle of direct suffrage, which means that
MPs and other elected representatives are elected
directly by the voters;
5) The principle of the secret ballot, which is the
prohibition of off-site surveillance will of the voters in
any form.

14. O In a broad sense, the electoral system meant
the system of social relationships that
develop in connection with the election of
public authorities and determine the order of
their formation. These relations are governed
by constitutional and legal norms, which
together form a constitutional-legal institution
suffrage.
O The electoral system in the narrow
sense - a certain way of allocating seats
among the candidates according to the
results of the elections or other
authorized persons.

15. Three main types of electoral systems that
vary the order of voting tabulation:
majority by which elected considered candidates with the
most votes in the electoral district in which they ran.
Depending on how determined majority needed to elect the
candidate distinguished:
• majoritarian system of absolute majority;
• majority system of relative majority;
• majority system of qualified majority;
proportional, in which the distribution of seats among
parties that nominated their candidates for the
representative body shall be subject to them received the
number of votes;
mixed, which involves a combination of the first two
systems: one of the deputies elected under the majority
system is carried out, ie the constituencies, the other - on
party lists.

16. Basic principles of
parliamentary election in
Ukraine:
1. People's Deputies of Ukraine shall be elected by the
citizens of Ukraine on the basis of universal , equal and
direct suffrage by secret ballot. Deputy may be a citizen of
Ukraine who on election day reached twenty-one years
shall be entitled to vote and living in Ukraine for the past
five years.
2. The size of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is 450
members.
3. Elections are carried out by a mixed ( proportional-
majoritarian ) system :
1) 225 members are elected by proportional representation
in multi -member constituency for the election list of
candidates of political parties;
2) 225 members are elected by plurality in single-member
constituencies.

17. O The announcement of the beginning of the election campaign
by the Central Election Commission. Elections to the Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine held on the last Sunday of October in the fifth
year of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Special elections to
the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine shall be appointed by the
President of Ukraine and held within sixty days from the date of
publication of the decision to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada of
Ukraine .
O Elections of the President of Ukraine held on the last Sunday in
March of the fifth year of the term of the President of Ukraine .
In the event of early termination of powers of the President of
Ukraine presidential elections in Ukraine held within ninety days
after the termination of office.

18. O Counting is done exclusively members of
the election commission at its meeting.
The Commission calculates the number of
votes cast for each candidate and for
each list of candidates of political parties
and election blocks. The candidate for
deputy, who received the most votes of
voters who vote against other candidates
who ran in this constituency.

19. Thank you for attention!