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Article 29
 

The Calculation of Valid Votes:


(15th Article of Law 4125, amended on 27 October 1995.) The total number of valid votes obtained by a political party that runs for the elections in a certain constituency, shows the valid votes obtained by that party in that constituency according to the second paragraph of the 28th Article.


(15th Article of Law 4125, amended on 27 October 1995.) The total number of valid votes obtained by an independent candidate means the total valid votes obtained by the independent candidate according to the second paragraph of the 28th Article. (Annexed on 13/3/2018 in accordance with the article 18 of Law 7102) Nevertheless, the valid votes of the political parties in the alliance should be calculated by adding the share comes from the alliance to the number of votes the political party received alone from that electoral constituency. It adds that votes received by the alliance will be counted separately for each party. The share for each party in the alliance should be calculated as: The number of votes received by each political party is divided to the total number of the parties in the alliance received so as to find out ratio and the ratio is multipled with the number of the other joint votes of the alliance


The total number of valid votes obtained by the political parties and by the independent candidates according to the first and second paragraphs, shows the valid votes of that constituency.


The number of valid votes nationwide is the total number of valid votes those came from all of the constituencies.