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Section 17
 

(1) On a ballot paper for the election of the members of the Budapest-Capital General Assembly, voters may cast their vote for one list.


(2) Mandates shall be allocated to capital lists proportionate to the votes cast for the lists.


(3) The method for mandate calculation:


a) A table shall be drawn up in which a column of numbers shall be inserted below the name of each list. The first number in the column shall be the number of votes cast for the list concerned; the next numbers in the column shall be the number of votes for the list concerned divided by two, three, four, five and so on, where the next divisor is the next whole number.


b) Mandates shall be allocated using the table. The list the column of which contains the highest number in the table shall receive one mandate. Next, the next highest number shall be established. The list the column of which contains the next highest number shall receive one mandate. The same proceedings shall be followed until every mandate is allocated.


c) If multiple equal numbers are found to be the highest in the table, than that list shall receive a mandate that did not yet receive a mandate or that received less mandates or that was given the lower serial number by means of drawing lots.


(4) If a capital list receives more mandates than the number of persons on the list, the mandate shall remain unfilled.