(1) The Land Returning Officer examines the election records of the Constituency Electoral Committees and then enters the final election results in the individual constituencies of the Land (section 76 subsection (2)) in a summary table as shown in Annex 30 to obtain the final election result for the Land.
(2) Following the report by the Land Returning Officer, the Land Electoral Committee determines the result for the second votes in the Land and establishes 1. the number of persons eligible to vote,
2. the number of actual voters,
3. the number of valid and invalid second votes,
4. the number of valid second votes cast for each Land list,
5. in the case specified in section 4 subsection (2), second sentence, number 1 of the Federal Elections Act, the number of second votes cast for each Land list which have to be taken into consideration for the allocation of seats (adjusted numbers), and
6. which candidates are deemed elected according to the provisional results. The Land Electoral Committee is authorised to correct any incorrect calculations in the results established by the Electoral Boards and Constituency Electoral Committees.
(3) When the above has been established, the Land Returning Officer announces the election result verbally, stating the details specified in subsection (2), first sentence.
(3a) The Land Returning Officer notifies the candidates who are deemed elected according to the provisional results and advises them that their election must be established as final by the Federal Electoral Committee, that they will attain membership of the German Bundestag with the opening of the first meeting following the election when the election result has been established as final by the Federal Returning Officer as per section 42 subsection (3), first sentence, of the Federal Elections Act and that a refusal of membership must be declared to the Land Returning Officer.
(4) The record of the meeting (section 5 subsection (7) must be drawn up as shown in Annex 33. Section 76 subsection (6), second sentence, applies accordingly.
(5) The Land Returning Officer forwards the Federal Returning Officer a copy of the record together with the establishment of the result for the second votes, the candidates deemed elected according to the provisional results and a summary table of the election results in the individual constituencies of the Land (subsection (1)).