(1) The election results of the local government election commission shall be calculated according to the reports which they have received from the polling station commissions.

(2) The lists of candidates which have received less than five per cent of the total votes given in the elections of this local government shall not participate in distribution of seats of councillors. The number of valid ballot envelopes shall be deemed to be the total number of votes given (the total number of voters who participated in the elections).

(3) In order to distribute the seats of the councillors among lists of candidates, the following procedures shall be applied:

1) the number of valid ballot papers given for each list of candidates shall be determined;

2) the number of ballot papers given for each list of candidates shall be then sequentially divided by 1, 3, 5, 7 and so on until the number of divisions is the same as the number of candidates nominated in the list of candidates;

3) all the acquired divisions regarding all lists of candidates shall be numbered in common descending order;

4) seats of councillors shall sequentially be received by those lists of candidates which conform to the largest divisions.

(4) If a division, the sequence number of which complies with the number of councillors to be elected, is equal to one or several subsequent divisions, a seat of the councillor shall be received by a list which has acquired more votes.

(5) If such lists of candidates have acquired equal number of votes, a seat of the councillor shall be received by the list of candidates that has been registered first.

(6) In each list of candidates, the nominated candidates shall be listed according to the number of votes received. The number of votes cast for a candidate shall be equal to the number of votes which were cast for the list of candidates in which this candidate was included, minus the number of ballot papers in which the given name or surname of this candidate was struck out, plus the number of those ballot papers in which voters made a “+” mark opposite the surname of this candidate. If two or more candidates of the same list of candidates have received an equal number of votes, they shall be mutually listed according to the sequence provided for by the submitters of the list of candidates.

(7) Those candidates shall be elected who have received the largest number of votes, but the remainder shall be recorded as candidates in such sequence as they were listed according to the number of votes which were cast for them.

[6 November 1996; 6 December 1996; 6 April 2000; 11 November 2004; 26 April 2007; 2 October 2008; 17 June 2020]