Правление доверило голосование председателю.

Because in Russian the verb agrees with the grammatical form of the subject, not with the real-world number of people involved.

Правление is a singular neuter noun, so the past tense verb must also be singular neuter:

• правление доверило

Even though правление means something like the board or the administration, and it consists of several people, grammatically it behaves as one singular noun.

Compare:

• совет решил = the council decided
• правительство объявило = the government announced
• правление доверило = the board entrusted

So доверило is correct because it matches правление, not the people inside it.

Голосование is in the accusative case.

Here it is the direct object of the verb доверить: the thing that was entrusted.

Structure:

• кто? — правление = the subject
• что? — голосование = what was entrusted
• кому? — председателю = to whom it was entrusted

So the pattern is:

• доверить что кому
  = to entrust something to someone

Because голосование is a neuter inanimate noun, its accusative form looks the same as the nominative:

• nominative: голосование
• accusative: голосование

That is why there is no visible ending change here.

Because the verb доверить usually takes the person receiving responsibility in the dative case.

The pattern is:

• доверить что кому
• доверять что кому

So:

• председатель = chairman/chairperson, nominative
• председателю = to the chairman/chairperson, dative

This dative marks the recipient of what is being entrusted.

Examples:

• Я доверил ключи брату. = I entrusted the keys to my brother.
• Они доверили проект менеджеру. = They entrusted the project to the manager.
• Правление доверило голосование председателю. = The board entrusted the vote/voting to the chair.

Not exactly. Доверить can mean to entrust, to put in someone’s care, or to assign to someone because you trust them.

So in this sentence, it is not just a feeling of trust. It means the board gave the responsibility for the voting to the chair.

Useful distinction:

• доверять кому-то = to trust someone
• доверить что-то кому-то = to entrust something to someone

Examples:

• Я доверяю ему. = I trust him.
• Я доверил ему документы. = I entrusted the documents to him.

In your sentence, the second meaning is being used.

Доверило is the past tense of the perfective verb доверить. Perfective aspect presents the action as a completed whole.

So Правление доверило голосование председателю suggests a completed decision: the board entrusted the voting to the chair.

If you used доверяло from the imperfective доверять, the meaning would change. It could suggest:

• a repeated action,
• an ongoing process,
• or background description rather than a completed event.

Compare:

• Правление доверило голосование председателю.
  = The board entrusted the voting to the chair. / The board assigned the voting to the chair.

• Правление доверяло голосование председателю.
  This is much less natural in most contexts, but could mean something like
  = The board used to entrust the voting to the chair.

So the perfective is the normal choice for a one-time completed decision.

It most often means voting or the vote/procedure of voting, depending on context.

Possible translations include:

• the voting
• the vote
• the ballot process

It does not automatically mean a full political election, although in some contexts it can be part of one.

In this sentence, голосование probably refers to the process or conduct of voting, not the opinions being voted on.

So a natural understanding is:

• The board entrusted the conduct of the vote to the chair.
• The board put the chair in charge of the voting.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible because case endings show the grammatical roles.

All of these are grammatically possible:

• Правление доверило голосование председателю.
• Председателю правление доверило голосование.
• Голосование правление доверило председателю.

The core meaning stays the same, but the emphasis changes.

For example:

• Правление доверило голосование председателю.
  Neutral order.

• Председателю правление доверило голосование.
  Emphasis on to the chair.

• Голосование правление доверило председателю.
  Emphasis on the voting.

For learners, the original sentence is the safest neutral version.

Not necessarily in meaning, but grammatically the noun is masculine.

Председатель is traditionally a masculine-form noun meaning chairman/chairperson/chair. In modern usage, it can sometimes refer to a person of any gender depending on context, especially in formal titles, though whether that feels natural depends on style and speaker.

In this sentence:

• председателю is the dative singular form of председатель

If the context clearly refers to a woman, Russian may still use председатель in some formal contexts, though other wording may also be chosen depending on register and preference.

Normally, the more natural interpretation is that the board entrusted the voting as a responsibility or procedure to the chair.

That is because the structure is:

• доверить что кому = entrust something to someone

So голосование is the thing being handed over.

If you wanted to say the board trusted the chairperson in the voting or trusted the chairperson to cast a vote, Russian would usually be phrased differently.

So the sentence is not mainly about believing in the chairperson’s honesty; it is about assigning responsibility.

They are:

• правление — board, administration, directorate
• доверить — to entrust
• голосование — voting, vote
• председатель — chair, chairman, chairperson

And the forms in the sentence are:

• Правление — nominative singular
• доверило — past tense, singular, neuter, perfective
• голосование — accusative singular
• председателю — dative singular

A good way is to ask the Russian case questions.

1. Кто? / who?
   Правление
   → this is the subject

2. Что? / what?
   голосование
   → this is the direct object

3. Кому? / to whom?
   председателю
   → this is the indirect object / recipient

So the sentence breaks down as:

• Правление = the board
• доверило = entrusted
• голосование = the voting
• председателю = to the chair

That gives the pattern:

The board entrusted the voting to the chair.