Georgia - 01/01/2024 - Local level

• The rules for compiling the party list shall be determined by the parties. When compiling the party list, it should be taken into account that according to the election results, the mandates received by the party are distributed in sequence, in order from the beginning of the list, and that maintaining gender balance is related to additional funding provided by the Organic law of Georgia on citizens' political associations. (Election code, article 143)
• The procedure for compiling a party list for the general elections of municipal bodies to be held before 2032 inclusive shall be defined by the political party in such a way that at least one person of each three candidates on the party list submitted to the chairperson of a respective election commission must be a female. The relevant political party must submit the party list to the chairperson of the relevant election commission not later than the 30th day before the polling day. If, in the party list submitted by the political party, there is no gender balance established by this paragraph, the list shall be returned to the party and three days shall be given to it to rectify the defect. If the defect is not rectified, the party list shall not be registered. (Election code, article 203, paragraph 8)
• If the authority of a member of the representative body of the municipality Sakrebulo elected by the proportional electoral system is terminated prematurely, his/her seat in the relevant Sakrebulo shall be taken within two weeks by his/her successor, the candidate of the same sex for the membership of Sakrebulo who follows him/her in the same party list, if the candidate gives his/her consent to become a member of Sakrebulo within 10 days from the receipt of the notification from the relevant district election commission. If there is no candidate of the same sex for the membership of Sakrebulo on the submitted party list, the vacancy shall be taken by the candidate for the membership of Sakrebulo who follows the member who has been withdrawn from the list. (Election code, article 203)