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Article 127
 

Determining results and distributing mandates for the election of Members of Parliament


(1) The State Election Commission shall tabulate and determine the final results of the voting in the electoral district which covers Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Asia.
(2) The State Election Commission shall determine the voting results based on the tabulated result protocols from the DCOs and the entire election material.
(3) The State Election Commission shall determine the results according to the total number of votes won by the lists of candidates, based on the tabulated results from the DCOs or consular Offices in the electoral district.
(4) Election results shall be determined by applying the D’Hondt method.
(5) When the total number of votes given for that particular number of candidates in the electoral district is tallied (the so-called electorate), each list is separately divided with the line of divisors 1, 2 and 3 until all MP seats in the electoral district are allocated by applying this principle.
(6) The quotients of the division referred to in paragraph (5) of this article shall be ordered by size and the number of largest quotients to be considered relevant will be the same as the number of members of Parliament being elected in the electoral district.
(7) A list of candidates shall obtain as many parliamentary seats as there are largest quotients out of the number of quotients referred to in paragraph (6) of this article.
(8) Should there be two identical quotients when distributing the last parliamentary seat, the mandate shall be allocated by drawing lots
(9) When allocating the parliamentary seats, the number of candidates elected shall correspond to the number of seats won by the list.
(10) The candidates shall be elected from the list of candidates, in the established.