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Section S12
 

  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 Senate. These lists shall be numbered from 1 onwards in the order of the total votes cast for the relevant lists at that election, provided always that the number 1 is given to the list of the grouping with the highest total vote. In the event of a tied vote, the matter shall be determined 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 Senate, one or more seats were allocated either to the combinations of groupings or to at least one of them. Where one or more seats were allocated to at least one of the groupings, 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 subsection 1, second sentence.


 



  1. The remaining groups of lists and sets of identical lists for which a list has been submitted for every province shall subsequently be numbered in an order to be determined by lot.


 



  1. If there are still lists to be numbered after subsection 3 has been applied, section I 14, subsections 4 and 5 shall be applied mutatis mutandis.