Electing councillors without an election

If the number of candidates approved for the elections is the same as the number of councillors to be elected, no elections are held, but the central municipal election board, in a meeting held on the Sunday referred to in section 144, declares instead that the approved candidates areelected councillors. If the number of candidates is smaller than the number of councillors to be elected, the number of the councillors remains incomplete for the time being. (563/2015)

In case of a situation referred to in subsection 1, a party and a constituency association have the right to nominate a deputy candidate for a candidate. The provisions on candidates laid down in this Act apply to deputy candidates.

The deputy candidates referred to in subsection 2 are appointed as deputy councillors. If need be, a deputy councillor is called to join the local council to replace a councillor, or, if the councillor has no deputy, he or she will be replaced by some other deputy councillor from the same party not belonging to an electoral alliance, the same electoral alliance or the same joint list in the order stated by the polling representative of the party or, in the case of an electoral alliance, the polling representatives of the parties together or the polling representative of a joint list. If the order of the deputy councillors has not been reported to the central municipal election board before the meeting referred to in subsection 1, the central municipal election board decides the order.