Registration of alternate council members

(1) The rural municipality or city electoral committee shall register the alternate members of a council by a resolution. The rural municipality or city electoral committee shall forward the resolution to the chairman of the council.

(2) The alternate members shall be registered by electoral district to the political parties and election coalitions whose candidates have collectively received at least 5 per cent of the valid votes in the corresponding rural municipality or city. If only independent candidates are in the consolidated list of candidates in an electoral district, the unelected independent candidates who ran as candidates in the electoral district shall be registered as alternate members.

(3) Candidates shall be registered, by each electoral district, to political parties and election coalitions as alternate members for candidates who were elected in electoral districts and shall be ranked according to the number of votes received. If candidates receive an equal number of votes from voters, the candidate who was positioned further towards the bottom of the list of candidates in the electoral district of a political party or election coalition shall be positioned ahead.
[RT I 2008, 53, 293 - entry into force 17.12.2008]

(4) Unelected candidates shall be registered as alternate members for candidates who were elected on the basis of compensation mandates in the order specified in the city list of the political party or election coalition.
[RT I 2008, 53, 293 - entry into force 17.12.2008]