Establishing the Number of Mandates Received by the Territorial Electoral Lists of Candidates from Party Organizations

1. In each territorial election district, seats are distributed among the territorial electoral lists of candidates from party organizations entitled to participate in the distribution of seats, in proportion to the number of votes cast in support of the respective territorial electoral list, in the number determined in accordance with parts two to four of this article.

2. In order to determine the number of candidates for local council obtained by the territorial electoral list of candidates for local council from a party organization, the number of votes cast in the territorial district in support of the relevant territorial electoral list (paragraph 9 of part one of Article 256 of this Code) shall be divided by the electoral quota according to part three of Article 257 of this Code. An integer of the received quotient shall deem a number of local council mandates to be granted to candidates included in the respective regional electoral list from this party organization.

3. The territorial election shall establish the number of votes of voters cast in support of the territorial electoral list of the respective party organization which remained unused during the distribution of local council mandates in this territorial election district (hereinafter, the number of unused votes of voters cast in the territorial district), by way of subtracting from the number of votes of voters cast in support of the respective territorial electoral list (paragraph 9 of the first part of Article 256 of this Code), the product of the electoral quota multiplied by the number of local council mandates received by candidates included in the respective territorial electoral list from this party organization.

4. The territorial election commission summarizes the number of seats received by candidates included in the territorial election lists of all party organizations in the relevant territorial district, establishing the total number of seats distributed in the relevant territorial district.

5. Repealed

6. The territorial election commission shall enter, in numbers and in words, in the protocol on results of the election of local council members in each territorial district the following information:

1) the number of mandates received by candidates included in each territorial electoral list of each party organization entitled to participate in the distribution of mandates determined in accordance with part two of this article;

2) the total number of local council mandates distributed in each territorial district, determined in accordance with part four of this article;

3) the number of unused votes of voters cast in the territorial election district in support of the electoral list of each party organization entitled to participate in the distribution of mandates determined in accordance with part three of this article.

7. If, as a result of elections in the respective constituency, the number of seats received by the party organization is greater than the number of persons included in the territorial electoral list by the respective party organization, the entire balance of unused votes (including those forming part of the electoral quota) votes cast in a single multi-member district in support of the party's electoral list.