The turnout of voters on elections of the mayor and city Council of the city at position 20. 00 (21. 00 MSK) amounted to 38, 6%, told reporters the head of the city election Commission Evgeny Grigoriev.

Local elections were held in Ukraine on Sunday on the new electoral law. Polling stations closed at 20. 00 local time (21. 00 MSK)

"The turnout was 38, 6% ", - said Grigoriev.

according to him, in the elections in Odessa were involved 271 119 came to the polls. Grigoriev has noticed that all precinct Election commissions count the results of the election, the will, the data on preliminary results of voting in city election Commission has not yet been reported.

in small towns with population over 90 thousand people, the mayor was elected by a simple majority vote, and in large has the opportunity to be assigned to a second round if none of the candidates will be able to collect more than 50% of the vote.

The results must be determined before November 4 and made public for five days, and in case of holding the 2nd round in the big cities - not later than November 20.

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