• 1. The central electoral committee shall rank the candidates on each list in such a way that the candidates to whom a seat has been allocated pursuant to Article P 15 are at the top, in the order in which the seats were allocated.

• 2. Next, in the order of the number of votes cast, the candidates on the list who, on the combined lists on which they appear, received a number of votes greater than 25% of the electoral quota or greater than half of the electoral quota, respectively, but who were not declared elected pursuant to Article P 15, first and second paragraphs, respectively, are ranked. If the numbers are equal, the order of the list is decisive.

• 3. Finally, the other candidates on the list are ranked, in the order of the list.

• 4. Article P 18 does not apply to the ranking.

• 5. Except for elections where the number of seats to be allocated is less than nineteen, the ranking will not be applied to lists on which no candidates have been declared elected and which are not part of a group of lists to which one or more seats have been allocated.