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Section 17
 

(1) Capital city compensatory lists will be given mandates in proportion to the surplus votes cast on the candidates for district mayor and aggregated on the level of the capital city.


(2) Surplus votes shall be all votes cast on the district mayor candidate of a nominating organisation not resulting in a successfully elected district mayor. Surplus votes shall be transferred to the capital city compensatory list of the nominating organisation.


(3) Surplus votes shall be all votes cast on the district mayor joint candidate not resulting in a successfully elected district mayor. Surplus votes shall be transferred to the joint capital city compensatory list of the jointly nominating organisations.


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(5) Form of calculating capital city compensatory mandates:


a) a table shall be compiled, in which a column of figures shall be made under the name of each list. The first number in the column of figures will be the number of votes of the given list, the following numbers of the column of figures will be the number of votes of the given list divided by three, four, five, by turns, whole numbers following each other.


b) mandates may be allocated by using the table. The greatest number in the list shall be found, and the list in the column of figures of which we find it will be given one mandate. After that, the next greatest number shall be found. The list in the column of figures of which we find it will be given one mandate. This procedure shall be continued until all of the mandates have been allocated.


c) If in searching for the greatest number occurring in the table there are equal greatest numbers, then mandate will be given to the list that has not obtained any mandate yet, or that has been given less mandates, finally, that has been given a lower serial number in drawing the list.


(6) If a capital city list is given more mandates than the number of the persons in the list, the mandate will remain unfilled.