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Article 45
 

(1) The list shall receive mandates in proportion to the number of votes - on the basis of the calculation specified in paragraph (4).

(2) Candidates on the compensation list shall receive mandates in the order of their announcement. If a candidate is withdrawn from the list, his or her place shall be taken by the candidate succeeding him or her on the list. If a candidate on a list was elected as mayor or as an individual constituency representative, then s/he shall be stricken off from the list.

(3) In the case of a candidate in Budapest receiving a mandate from both a capital district list and a capital list, then s/he shall declare which mandate s/he shall accept. His or her name shall be stricken off from the list whose mandate s/he did not accept.

(4) The method of calculation shall be:

a) A table shall be compiled, on which a column of numbers shall be created under the name of each list. The first number in the column of numbers shall be the number of votes cast on the given list divided by 1.5, the following numbers a third, a fifth, a seventh, etc. thereof.

b) Mandates shall be distributed by means of this table. The greatest number occurring in the table shall be sought, and the list under which it was found shall receive a mandate. Then the next greatest number shall be sought and the list in the column of which the number can be found - shall be given a mandate. This procedure shall be carried out until every mandate shall be distributed. In the case of the equality of the greatest number occurring in the table, then the list that up to that time has not received a mandate, or has not received as many mandates, and finally the list that was allocated a smaller ordinal number during the drawing lots, shall receive a mandate.

(5) If a compensation list shall receive a greater number of votes than the number of persons appearing on the list, then the mandate shall remain vacant.