(1) As soon as the election result for the polling district has been established, the Electoral Officer reports it to the municipal authority, which compiles the election results for all polling districts in the municipality and reports the result to the Constituency Returning Officer. If only one polling district has been set up in the municipality, the Electoral Officer reports the election result to the Constituency Returning Officer. The Land Returning Officer may order the election results of the municipalities within an administrative district to be reported via the administrative authority of the district.
(2) The report is made by the quickest means available (e.g. by telephone or other electronic means). It contains
1. the number of persons eligible to vote,
2. the number of actual voters,
3. the number of valid and invalid first votes,
4. the number of valid and invalid second votes,
5. the number of valid first votes cast for each candidate,
6. the number of valid second votes cast for each Land list.
(3) The Constituency Returning Officer determines the provisional election result for the constituency from the early reports submitted by the municipal authorities. Taking into account the results of the postal ballot (section 75 subsection (4)), he or she communicates the provisional election result to the Land Returning Officer by the quickest means available. If the candidate of a non-party constituency nomination

(section 20 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act) has secured the most first votes in the constituency election, this is established by the Constituency Returning Officer. The Land Returning Officer reports the constituency results immediately to the Federal Returning Officer on a rolling basis as they come in.
(4) The Land Returning Officer determines the provisional election figures for the Land from the early reports provided by the Constituency Returning Officers and reports them to the Federal Returning Officer by the quickest means available.
(5) The Federal Returning Officer determines the provisional election result for the electoral area from the early reports provided by the Land Returning Officers in line with section 78.
(6) After carrying out those verifications which are possible without access to the election records, the Returning Officers announce the provisional election results verbally or in another appropriate form.
(7) The early reports issued by the Electoral Officers, municipal authorities and Constituency Returning Officers are made as shown in Annex 28. The Land Returning Officer may give instructions on how to transmit such early reports. He or she may also order that the election results of the polling districts and the municipalities be communicated simultaneously to the Constituency Returning Officer and to himself or herself. When determining the provisional election result for the Land, the Land Returning Officer may only consider the communicated results once the report in accordance with subsection (3), second sentence, has been provided by the Constituency Returning Officer.