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Paragraph 35
 

The 101 seats are distributed to those parties and alliances passing the threshold by the method of the largest remainders (Article 95.4-6). For each party, the seats won are divided in two equal parts (rounded down for national lists and up for district lists). The total number of district seats would therefore not be fixed before the elections. The seats won from national lists are filled from the top of the list (Article 100.2); the remaining seats are distributed to district lists in proportion to the votes cast for each party (Article 95.7 and 95.8) by the D’Hondt method. Higher turnout will give more seats, which would give an incentive for participating in elections. However, in theory at least, the smallest districts might not be awarded district seats. District seats are filled in the sequence of preference votes allocated to candidates.