§ 1 Upon receipt of the notice referred to in art. 231 § 2, the district electoral commission shall divide the seats between the eligible list of candidates in the following manner:

1) the number of valid votes cast for each of these lists in the constituency is divided by the numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4 and so forth until all the numbers from the resulting quotients can be enough to rank the largest sequence of numbers, that amounts to the number of seats to be allocated between the lists in a constituency;

2) each list shall receive the number of mandates , based on the above established process of ranking the largest sequence of numbers, which is equivalent to the number of the highest sequence of numbers.

§ 2 If several lists obtained quotients equal to the last figure of the numbers ranked in the specified manner, and there are more lists than seats to be allocated, priority is given to lists in the order of the total number of votes cast on them. If two or more list were given an equal number of votes, the priority shall be decided based on the number of electoral circuits in where a given list received most votes.