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Article 13.5
 

(1) Allocation of mandates for the Cantonal Assembly and the Municipal Council/Assembly shall be conducted in accordance with Article 9.5 of this Law.


(2) If a political party, coalition, or list of independent candidates is distributed mandates equal to the number of candidates on its list and there are still mandates to be distributed, then the remaining quotients of that political party, coalition, or list of independent candidates shall be ignored in distributing the remaining mandates. If an independent candidate wins a mandate, then the remaining quotients of that independent candidate shall be ignored in distributing the remaining mandates.


(3) If a tie occurs because the quotients are identical, the mandate shall be allocated on the basis of the drawing of a lot.


(4) Mandates for Cantonal Assembly won by a list shall be distributed first amongst candidates on the list who individually received at least twenty percent (20%) of the total number of valid votes received by that list, these mandates being awarded in the order of the highest number of votes to the lowest number of votes. If there are still mandates to be distributed to a list and the candidates remaining are those who received less than twenty percent (20%) of the total valid votes received by that list, then distribution of the mandates among the remaining candidates from the list will be done according to their order on the list.


(5) Mandates for Municipal Council/Assembly won by a list shall be distributed first amongst candidates on the list who individually received at least ten percent (10%) of the total number of valid votes received by that list, these mandates being awarded in the order of the highest number of votes to the lowest number of votes. If there are still mandates to be distributed to a list and the candidates remaining are those who received less than ten percent (10%) of the total number of valid votes received by that list, then distribution of mandates among the remaining candidates from the list will be done according to their order on the list.