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Section I14
 

  1. The first lists to be numbered shall be those of political groupings whose appellation appeared at the top of a list of candidates to which one or more seats were allocated at the last election to the relevant representative assembly. These lists shall be numbered from 1 onwards in the order of the total votes cast for them at that election, provided always that the number 1 is given to the list of the grouping with the most votes. In the event of a tied vote, the matter shall be decided by lot.


 



  1. Subsection 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to cases in which the appellations of two or more groupings are combined, if, at the last election to the relevant representative assembly, one or more seats were allocated to the combination of groupings or to at least one of them. Where one or more seats were allocated to at least one of the groupings in question, the number of votes cast for the lists of the groupings to which the seats were allocated shall be added together for the purposes of the provisions of the second sentence.


 



  1. The numbers following those assigned by virtue of subsection 1 shall subsequently be assigned to the remaining groups of lists and sets of identical lists for which a list has been submitted in every electoral district, in an order to be determined by lot.


4. Thereafter, the other groups of lists and sets of identical lists shall be numbered with the numbers following the last number given pursuant to subsection 3, in the order of the number of electoral districts where a related list has been submitted, provided always that the next number shall be assigned to the group of lists or the set of identical lists for which a list has been submitted in the most electoral districts. Where the number of electoral districts is the same, the matter shall be decided by lot.


 



  1. Finally, the separate lists for each electoral district shall be assigned by lot the numbers which have not yet been assigned to another list in any electoral district.