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Section P19
 

  1. The central electoral committee shall arrange the candidates appearing on each list or set of identical lists in the order in which they have been awarded the seats, with at the top the candidates to whom a seat has been allocated pursuant to section P 15.


 



  1. These shall be followed, in the order of the number of votes cast for them, by the candidates appearing on the list or set of identical lists who have obtained more than 25% or half of the electoral quota on the joint list on which they appear but who have not been declared elected in accordance with section P 15, subsection 1 or 2. If the numbers are equal, the matter shall be decided by the order in which they appear on the list.


 



  1. Finally, the other candidates appearing on the list or set of identical lists shall be arranged in the order of the list.


 



  1. Section P 18 shall not apply to the arrangement of the candidates in order.


 



  1. Except in an election to a municipal council with nine or eleven members, this need not be done in respect of lists or sets of identical lists for which no candidates have been declared elected and which do not form part of a combined list or group of lists to which one or more seats have been awarded.