(1) The Constituency Returning Officer examines the election records of the Electoral Boards for completeness and due form. On the basis of the election records, he or she compiles the final result of the election in the constituency and of the election by Land list, recording the result by polling district and Postal Ballot Board as shown in Annex 30. The Constituency Returning Officer prepares subtotals for the municipalities and administrative districts and, in the event of an order pursuant to section 8 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act, also for the postal ballot results. If any concerns arise regarding the proper conduct of the election on the basis of the election record or for other reasons, the Constituency Returning Officer resolves them to the extent possible. If ballot papers are recounted, the Constituency Returning Officer makes the recount known to the public by posting a notice at or in the entrance to the building where the meeting is held. The notice must indicate the number of the polling district whose ballot papers have to be recounted and provide the information that the recount will be carried out in public. The Constituency Returning Officer presents to the Constituency Electoral Committee the election record drawn up by the Electoral Board of the polling district concerned and the record documenting the examination of the individual ballot paper piles.
(2) Following the report by the Constituency Returning Officer, the Constituency Electoral Committee determines the election result for the constituency and establishes 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.
The Constituency Electoral Committee is authorised to correct results established by the Electoral Board and to take diverging decisions on the validity of votes cast. It documents any unresolved concerns in the election record.
(3) (repealed)
(4) If, in the constituency election, the candidate named in a non-party constituency nomination (section 20 subsection (3) of the Federal Elections Act) has won the most first votes, the Constituency Returning Officer requires each municipal authority to provide the ballot papers on which a vote has been cast for that candidate and adds to these ballot papers the ballot papers received in the postal ballot and those which are attached to the election record and bear votes for that candidate. The Constituency Electoral Committee establishes how many second votes are disregarded pursuant to section 4 subsection (2), second sentence, number 1 of the Federal Elections Act and from which Land lists they have to be deducted.
(5) When the above has been established, the Constituency Returning Officer announces the election result verbally, stating the details specified in subsection (2), first sentence.
(6) The record of the meeting (section 5 subsection (7)) must be drawn up as shown in Annex 32. The record and the attached summary table of the election result as shown in Annex 30 must be signed by all members of the Constituency Electoral Committee who attended the meeting and by the record keeper.
(7) (repealed)
(8) The Constituency Returning Officer forwards a copy of the record of the Constituency Electoral Committee meeting and the accompanying summary table to the Land Returning Officer and the Federal Returning Officer by the quickest means available.
(9) (repealed)