If a sufficiently greater number of members cannot be appointed on the basis of a number of personal votes, the order between the remaining candidates shall be determined through comparative numbers being calculated in accordance with the following.

Upon the first computation, a ballot paper applies for the candidate who appears first on the paper, in which connection candidates that have already obtained a seat are ignored. Ballot papers with the same first candidate form one group. The number of votes for each group are counted. The
number of votes is equivalent to the number of ballot papers included in the group. The same number is also the comparative number for the candidate who appears first on the group’s ballot papers. The candidate whose comparative number is greatest gets the first place in the order.

Upon each following computation a ballot paper applies for the candidate who appears first on the paper, but candidates who have already got a place in the order are ignored. The or those groups, whose ballot papers on the immediately preceding computation applied for the candidate who got a
place in the order, are dissolved and arranged in new groups, so that ballot papers that on the ongoing computation apply for one and the same candidate form one group. Other groups that have been formed shall however be retained. For each newly formed group the number of votes is counted.

The number of votes is equivalent to the number of ballot papers included in the group. For all candidates that participate in the computation, the number of votes and comparative numbers are counted. The number of votes for a candidate is equivalent to the number of votes for the group or the aggregate number of votes for the groups whose ballot papers apply for the candidate. The comparative number for a candidate is equivalent to the number of votes for the candidate, unless the group of ballot papers that applies for the candidate participated in filling a previously allocated place. If this is
the case, the candidate’s comparative number is obtained by the number of votes for the candidate being divided by the figure that corresponds to that part which the group has taken in filling a place or places that have been allocated (the number of group places), increased by 1, or, if several groups
of ballot papers that apply for the candidate participated in filling a previously allocated place, with the aggregate number of places for these groups, increased by 1. The number of group places is calculated through the group’s number of votes being divided by the greatest comparative number upon the computation immediately preceding the formation of the group. For a candidate who already appeared first on any ballot paper, a new number of group places is only calculated for newly added ballot papers. Fractions that arise upon divisions are calculated to 2 decimal points. The latter decimal figure may not be increased.

The candidate whose comparative number is greatest gets the next place in the order.