If the number of incumbent candidates of a list is equal to the number of seats allocated to the lists, these candidates are all elected

If the number of candidates is higher than the number of seats, these seats are distributed among the candidates in a decreasing order of the votes they obtained. In case of equality, the order of presentation decides. Before the delegates are appointed, the central electoral committee of the constituency proceeds to the individual attribution of votes to the incumbent candidates who receive half of the votes in favor of their order of presentation. This half is created by dividing the total number of vote in the sub-categories by two, following article 156 §1er, sentence 2, 1° and 4°. The allocation of these ballots is done according to a devolutif mode. They are added up to the nominative votes the first candidates on the list got, in concurrence to what is necessary to achieve to get the specific electoral eligibility of each list. The remaining votes – if there are any – are given in a similar way to the second, third candidate and so on until half of the number of votes of the ballot papers in favor of the order of presentation of these candidates are used.

The eligibility number, specific to each of the lists, is calculated by dividing the electoral number of votes of the list as it is defined in article 166 by the number of seats appointed to the lists plus one.

If the number of candidate of a list is smaller than the number of seats they are entitled to, these candidates are elected and the remaining seat are given to the substitute candidates who arrive first in the order indicated in article 173. If there are not enough substitute candidates for the remaining seats, they are divided up following the rules stipulated in article 167, last sentence.