Returning of members to the constituency seats at parliamentary elections

(1) When it has been decided how many constituency seats an electoral list shall have, the County Electoral Committee allocates these to the candidates on the list. Candidates who are not eligible are disregarded. The returning of members takes place in the following manner: First the names listed as No. 1 on the ballot papers are counted. The candidate who has most such placements is elected. Thereafter the names listed as No. 2 on the ballot papers are counted. The candidate who has most such placements when the results from the first and second counts are added together is elected. The counts continue in the same manner until all the parliamentary seats the list shall have, have been filled. If two or more candidates achieve the same result, the original order on the list is decisive.

(2) Each list shall as far as possible be allocated as many alternates as it gets members of the Storting, with the addition of three. The candidates for seats as alternates are distributed in the same manner as the members in accordance with subsection (1) above.