[5] Balta Raion was first established on 7 March 1923 as part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[4] Between 1924 and 1940, Balta was part of Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and then reverted to Ukraine.

On 4 February 2016, it was designated the city of oblast significance but remained the administrative center of the raion.

Consequently, raions were subdivided into councils, which were the prime level of administrative division in the country.

[4] According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of the Balta district in its boundaries at that time spoke Ukrainian (89.3%), with Russian (8.7%) and Romanian (1.5%) speakers in the minority.