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Article 63
 

§ 1. The House of Representatives is made up of one hundred and fifty members.

 

§ 2. Each electoral circumscription has as many seats as the number of the members of its population contains a multiple of the federal divisor, obtained by dividing the number of the population of the Kingdom by one hundred and fifty.

 

The remaining seats are attributed to the electoral circumscriptions which have the greatest surplus of population not yet represented.

 

§ 3. The sharing of the members of the House of Representatives among the electoral circumscriptions is allocated to the population by the King.

 

The size of the population of each electoral circumscription is determined every ten years by a census or by any other means defined by law. The King publishes the results within a period of six months.

 

During the three months of this publication, the king determines the number of seats attributed to each electoral circumscription.

 

The new distribution is applied as of the following general election.

 

§ 4. The law determines the electoral circumscriptions; it also determines the conditions required to be an elector as well as those for the carrying out of electoral operations.