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Article 9.1
 

(1) The House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH shall consist of 42 members, 28 of whom shall be directly elected by voters registered to vote for the territory of the Federation of BiH, and 14 of whom shall be directly elected by voters registered to vote for the territory of the Republika Srpska. The mandate of members of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH shall be four years.


(2) Of 28 members who shall be directly elected by voters registered to vote for the territory of the Federation of BiH, 21 shall be elected from multi-member constituencies under the proportional representation formula set forth in Article 9.5 of this law, and seven shall be compensatory mandates elected from the territory of the Federation as a whole according to Article 9.6 of this Law.


(3) Of 14 members who shall be directly elected by voters registered to vote for the territory of the Republika Srpska, nine shall be elected from multi-member constituencies under the proportional representation formula set forth in Article 9.5 of this law, and five shall be compensatory mandates elected from the territory of the Republika Srpska as a whole according to Article 9.6 of this Law.


(4) A voter shall have one ballot for the proportional representation mandates in the multimember constituency for which the voter is registered.