Scale for allotment of seats to Provincial Deputations

1. The number of members of each Provincial Deputation shall be determined, depending on the number of the province residents, by the following scale:

 
                                                  Members
Up to 500,000 residents                     25
Between 500,001 and 1,000,000         27
Between 1,000,001 and 3,500,000      31
From 3,500,001 residents                   51

2. Provincial Electoral Commissions shall allot in proportion to the number of residents the seats corresponding to each judiciary district (partido judicial) on the tenth day after the call of the election, according to the following rules:

a) Every judicial district shall be assigned at least one member;
b) No district is to have more than three-fifths of the total number of provincial representatives;
c) Fractions equal to or more than 0.5 resulting from said proportional allotment shall be rounded up to the next higher unity and those below said 0,50 down to the next lower unity and
d) Where the result of the above operations is a higher number than the legal aggregate of provincial representatives, there shall be deducted as many seats as necessary from thedistricts with the least numbers of residents for each representative. Where on the contrary the resulting number is lower than said legal aggregate, there shall be added as many seats as necessary to the districts with the highest number of residents per representative.

3. For the purposes of this Chapter judiciary districts shall be those delimited for the 1979 local elections.