(1) The votes falling to each list of candidates of all nomination districts taken together are added up list by list. For registered coalitions votes are also added up for such coalition lists of candidates.

(2) The aggregate number of votes cast for each coalition and the number of votes cast for each list of candidates not having entered into a coalition are divided by 1, 2, 3 etc. until such divisional operations equivalent to the maximum number of seats expected to be allocated to the coalition or the list of candidates have been made. The coalition or the list of candidates that receives the highest resulting quotients qualifies for the first seat. The second highest quotient is entitled to the second seat and so on and so forth, until all seats have been allocated. Any equality of two or more quotients is to be settled by drawing lots.

(3) The number of seats allocated to a coalition are be divided among the lists of candidates constituting the coalition according to the procedure specified in subsection (2).

(4) If a list of candidates is allocated more seats than there are candidates in the list of candidates, these excess seats are to fall to the list with which the exhausted list has entered into a coalition. If the exhausted list has not entered into a coalition with other lists, or if these lists are also exhausted, the seats are to be allocated to non-exhausted lists and coalitions in the order of priority of their entitlement to further seats according to the rules in subsections (2) and (3).