The Law rules that:
— the election of deputies to village, small town councils are conducted under the majority election system of relative majority in single mandate constituencies the territory of respective village (several villages, whose residents voluntarily united into village community), small town, the territory of village, small town united territorial community are divided for;
— the election of deputes to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional, district, city district councils is conducted under the proportional election system in multi-mandate constituency under the election list of local organizations of political parties with the assignation of candidates to the territory election constituencies, a multi-mandate constituency is divided for, which coincides with the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, region, district, city territory in compliance with existing administrative and territorial structure or the territory of unified city territorial community set in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On voluntary unification of territorial communities;"
— the election of city (cities, where the number of voters equals or exceeds 90,000) heads is conducted under majority election system of absolute majority in the only single mandate constituency that respectively coincides with the territory of the city in compliance with existing administrative and territorial structure or the territory of unified city community;
— the election of village, small town, city (cities, where the number of voters is less than 90,000) heads is conducted under the majority election system of relative majority in the only single mandate constituency comprising the territory of respective village (several villages, whose residents voluntarily united into a village community) small town, the territory of united village, small town community, the territory of the city.
In compliance with results of the voting, district election commission counts the votes given for each local organization of a political party. Intermediate territorial election commissions only set intermediate results of the voting separately on each territorial constituency and pass them to the territorial election commission that finally sets respective voting returns.
The Law improves the procedure of establishment of single mandate constituencies; provision on transparency of financing of election campaigns; sets precise and clear system of cooperation between election commissions during preparation of the election, setting of voting returns.
The Law excludes election blocs from the list of subjects of the election process.
The Law allows parties registered not later than 365 days before the day of the election and the ones that were renamed not later than 180 days before the election to take part in the election.
The Transitional Provisions of the Law rule that regular local election of deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol city council, district, city district, city, small town, village councils and the election of city, small town, village heads on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the election of deputies to regional councils, standalone district, city district, city, small town, village councils, the election of city, small town and village heads, and united communities on the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, scheduled for October 25, 2015, are not conducted due to temporarily occupation by the Russian Federation and armed aggression upon Ukraine.
The Law introduces amendments into the Administrative Court Procedure Code of Ukraine, Laws of Ukraine "On local self-government in Ukraine," "On State register of voters," "On state procurements," "On status of local councils deputies," etc.
Respective draft law was registered under No. 2831-3.