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Section H2
 

  1. In the case of an election to the House of Representatives or to the provincial council of a province consisting of more than one electoral district, it shall be sufficient for the lists to be submitted to one principal electoral committee if the political grouping in question is taking part in all the electoral districts with lists of candidates containing over thirty names and the names are the same, except for not more than the last five, and are listed in the same order. If a list of candidates contains the same names listed in the same order, it shall suffice for a political grouping whose appellation appeared at the top of a list of candidates to which one or more seats were allocated in the previous election to the House of Representatives or provincial council to submit one list to one principal electoral committee. The provisions of the previous sentences shall also apply in cases where the appellations of two or more groupings are combined, if one or more seats were allocated to either the combination of groupings or at least one of them in the previous election to the relevant representative assembly.


 



  1. The submission referred to in subsection 1 shall take place at the principal electoral committee of electoral district 12 (The Hague) if it relates to an election to the House of Representatives, and at the principal electoral committee of the electoral district in which the municipality where the provincial council meets is situated if it relates to an election to the provincial council. For the purposes of section H 11 and section I 10, subsection 3, such a submission shall be deemed to have been made in all electoral districts.