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Article 4
 

(1) In each constituency as many seats of the National Council are distributed as are the results of the calculation according to al. 2 to 5.

(2) The number of citizens having their principal residence within the territory of the Republic according to the final results of the latest ordinary or special census (Census Act 1980, Federal Law Gazette No. 199) plus the number of citizens living abroad, being registered in the electoral list on the qualifying date shall be divided by 183. This quotient shall be calculated as a three-figure decimal. It constitutes the figure of proportion.

(3) Each provincial constituency is allotted as many seats as the figure of proportion (al. 2) is contained in the number of citizens having their principal residence in the provincial constituency according to the final results of the latest ordinary or special census respectively, plus the number of citizens living abroad who are registered on the qualifying date in the electoral list in the area of the provincial constituency.

(4) If not all 183 seats can be allotted this way, the quotients to be ascertained according to al. 3 shall be calculated as a three-figure decimal. The remaining seats are allotted to those provincial constituencies that show the largest decimals according to the sequence order. In case the decimals are equal in two or more provincial constituencies, these provincial constituencies are allotted one remaining seat each, unless it is for the allotment of the last of the 183 seats. If, by way of equal decimals, two or more provincial constituencies are equally entitled to the allotment of this last seat, the question of which provincial constituency is allotted this last remaining seat is decided by drawing lots.

(5) Each regional constituency receives as many of the National Council seats allotted to the respective provincial constituency as are calculated by application of the general meaning of al. 3 and 4.