The number of mandates won by the respective candidate list shall be established by dividing the total number of votes each candidate list in the constituency has won by 1, 2, etc., inclusive with the number which corresponds to the number of councillors or MPs that are elected in the constituency. The quotients thus calculated shall be sorted by size, taking into account as many large quotients as councillors and MPs being elected.

An individual candidate list shall gain the number of mandates that equals the quotients belonging to it.

Allocation of mandates won by a collective candidate list to the submitters of candidate lists which comprise that collective candidate list shall be carried out in the way that the total number of votes won by an individual candidate list comprising the collective candidate list is divided by 1, 2, etc., ending with the number of mandates won by the collective candidate list. The quotients thus calculated shall be classified by size, taking into account as many of the highest quotients as is the number of mandates won by the collective candidate list.

If two or more candidate lists gain the same quotients based on which they would be allocated one mandate, it shall be established by drawing lots which candidate list shall be allocated this mandate.