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Article 73
 

(1) For each polling district the election com mittee shall recount and reassess the ballot papers accord ing to the rules in sections 68, 69 and 74a. The results of the counts shall be entered in the election records. Then the number of votes allocated to each party and to each independent candidate shall be summed up for the nomination district as a whole. The result shall be entered in the election records and be announced to those present.


(2) The number of personal votes for each candidate and the number of party votes for each party in each polling district and in the nomination district as a whole are tabulated concurrently, cf. subsections (3) and (4). Subsequently, the number of party votes cast for the nomination district as a whole is tabulated, to establish the allocation of votes in respect of each individual candidate, cf. subsection (5), and the number of personal votes and added party votes in respect of each candidate are summed up.


(3) If the voter has put a cross against the name of a candidate, or against both the name of a candidate and the name of the party for which the candidate stands, the ballot paper shall be deemed as cast in favour of such candidate (personal vote). Similar rules shall apply if, on the advance ballot paper, the voter has indicated the name of a candidate or both the name of a candidate and the name or letter of the party for which the candi date stands.


(4) If the voter has put a cross against the name of a party or within the party field in such a way that there is doubt as to which of the party’s candidates the voter intended to give his or her vote, the ballot paper shall be deemed to have been cast in favour of the party (party vote). Similar rules shall apply if, on the advance ballot paper, the voter has indicated the name or the letter of a party or the names of more than one candidate standing for the party in the multimember constituency.


(5) In case of candidature by district, the party votes according to subsection (4) shall be allocated to the party candidate in the nomina tion district. In case of candidature in parallel the party votes shall be distributed among the party candidates in the nomi nation district in proportion to their number of personal votes, cf. subsection (3). If two or more candidates are equally entitled to a party vote, the Minister for Social Welfare shall arrange to draw lots. If, in the nomina tion district, the party does not have a candi date standing, the party votes shall not be allocated to any candi date, but shall be listed separ ately as ”other party votes”. If a party list has been registered, these votes shall, however, be allocated to the candidate announced as the first candidate in the party list in the multimember constituency.


(6) The result of the tabulation and summation for the nomination district as a whole specified in the first and second sentences of subsection (2) shall be entered in the election records and be announced to those present. The result of the tabulation and summation for each polling district specified in subsection (2)(i) shall form an attachment to the election records.