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Article 41
 

(1) The Electoral Commission shall allocate the mandates by applying the system of the largest quotient.


(2) The mandates shall be distributed by dividing the total number of votes won by each individual electoral list by the numbers ranging from one to the number corresponding to the number of councillors to be elected to the assembly of the local self-government unit, inclusive. The resulting quotients obtained in such a way shall be sorted by size, taking into account the number of the largest quotients that corresponds to the number of councillors being elected to the assembly of the local self-government unit. Each electoral list shall be assigned the number of mandates that corresponds to the number of quotients assorted to the given list.


(3) If two or more electoral lists obtain the same quotients on the basis of which one mandate is to be assigned and there are no more unassigned mandates, the mandate shall be assigned to the list with the largest number of votes won.


(4) The Electoral Commission shall, within 24 hours of the closure of the polling stations, allocate the councillors’ mandates in the manner referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and shall make a separate record thereof.