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Article 43
 

43.-(1) As soon as the election committee has received the information from the prefect according to section 42(1), it shall procure ballot papers for use at the polls in the nomination district as well as notices, cf. section 45(3). Within the metropolitan constituencies the election committee shall procure ballot papers and notices on the basis of the lists referred to in section 36(4) and (5). The ballot papers and notices for use at the polls in the nomination districts of the City of Copenhagen, which belong to Metropolitan Constituency 3, shall, however, be procured on the basis of the communication referred to in section 42(2).

(2) The ballot paper shall contain the names and letter designations of all parties with candidates to stand in the multi-member constituency. The parties shall be listed in alphabetical order according to their letter designations.

(3) The ballot paper shall furthermore contain the names of all candidates who stand in the multi-member constituency. Candidates standing for a party shall be listed together in a separate field for the appropriate party and in the order specified in section 39(2) and section 40(2). Candidates who stand as independents shall be listed below all others in a separate field for these and in alphabetical order, however, in such a way that candidates standing in the nomination district in question shall be listed first.

(4) The Minister for the Interior shall lay down detailed rules governing the contents and design of the ballot papers.