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Article 19
 

19.1. Once the allocation of representatives to the political parties referred in subparagraphs a) and b) of paragraph 1 of article 17 of this Law has been determined, and in case that the conditions of sections IV and V of article 54 of the Constitution do not apply to any of the political parties, the procedure is as follows:


a) The total votes of each electoral district will be divided by forty, to obtain the distribution ratio;


b) The votes obtained by political party in each of the multi-member regional electoral districts will be divided by the distribution ratio. The result in whole numbers will be the total number of representatives that will be allocated to the political party in each multi-member regional electoral district, and


c) If some seats remain to be distributed to the political parties after the distribution ratio has been applied, the largest remainder of votes that each political party received in the electoral districts will be used, in descending order, until they are exhausted, so that each multi-member regional electoral district has forty representatives.