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Section 11
 

Distribution of constituency seats between the electoral lists at parliamentary elections


(1) Of the number of seats each constituency shall have in pursuance of section 11-3, all with the exception of one are to be distributed as constituency seats. The last seat is allocated by the National Electoral Committee as a seat at large.


(2) The County Electoral Committee shall undertake the determination of the election result for each of the constituencies in the county and allocate the constituency's constituency seats to the lists. The distribution of seats is done according to Sainte-Laguës's modified method.


(3) Sainte-Laguës's modified method means that the total vote polled by each list is divided by 1.4, 3, 5, 7 and so forth. Each total vote polled shall be divided as many times as necessary to find the number of seats the list shall have. The first seat goes to the list that has the largest quotient. The second seat goes to the list that has the second largest quotient and so forth. If two or more lists have the same quotient, the seat goes to the list that has polled the largest number of votes. If they have polled the same number of votes, it is determined by lot to which list the seat shall be allocated.