Article 13 (Constituency Election Management) (1) An election commission attending to the election affairs of each constituency (hereinafter referred to as "constituency election commission") shall be as follows: <Amended on Feb. 16, 2000; Aug. 4, 2005; Aug. 13, 2015> 1. The constituency election affairs for a presidential election and an election of proportional representation members of the National Assembly in the national constituency (hereinafter referred to as "proportional representation members of the National Assembly") shall be attended to by the National Election Commission; 2. The constituency election affairs for an election of the Special Metropolitan City Mayor, Metropolitan City Mayors, a Special Self-Governing City Mayor, and Do Governors (hereinafter referred to as "Mayors/Do Governors") and an election of proportional representation members of City/Do councils (hereinafter referred to as "proportional representation members of City/Do councils") shall be attended to by the relevant City/Do election commission; 3. The constituency election affairs conducted for elections of constituency members of the National Assembly (hereinafter referred to as "constituency members of the National Assembly"), elections of constituency members of City/Do councils (hereinafter referred to as "constituency members of City/Do councils"), elections of constituency members of autonomous Gu/Si/Gun councils (hereinafter referred to as "constituency members of autonomous Gu/Si/Gun councils"), elections of proportional representation members of autonomous Gu/Si/Gun councils (hereinafter referred to as "proportional representation members of autonomous Gu/Si/Gun councils") and elections of the heads of autonomous Gus/Sis/Guns (hereinafter referred to as the "heads of autonomous Gus/Sis/Guns") shall be attended to by the Gu/Si/Gun election commission which has jurisdiction over the relevant constituency (where a Gu/Si/Gun election commission is designated to attend to the constituency election affairs as provided for in Article 29 (3) of this Act or Article 2 (6) of the Election Commission Act, referring to the Gu/Si/Gun election commission so designated). (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), "constituency election affairs" means the election affairs to be conducted in the relevant constituency as a unit, such as registering candidacy and calling a winner. (3) Where deemed especially necessary for the election management, a constituency election commission or its immediate superior election commission may, as prescribed by the National Election Commission, adjust the scope of election affairs to be performed by the election commission in the competent constituency in respect to the relevant election, or may have its subordinate election commission or its members attend to the duties of the constituency election commission. (4) A member of the subordinate election commission attending to the constituency election affairs as provided for in paragraph (3) shall not be counted in the quorum of members of the constituency election commission, and may not take part in voting of the constituency election commission.

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