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Article 115
 

(1) By-elections shall be called for by the competent election committee in 30 days from the occurrence of the reason. By-elections shall be called for a date within four months from the date the seat becomes vacant, or, within three months from the dissolution or dissolving of the body of representatives. By-elections shall not be called for a date between 1 April and the date of the general elections in the year of general local municipality elections. In respect of by-elections the rules of general elections apply.
(2) If an elected candidate is eliminated from the county, compensation or metropolitan list, the nominating organisation may notify a new candidate to replace him/her to the competent election committee.
(3) If solely minority municipality by-elections are held at the settlement, the constituencies may be established in such fashion that more voters than defined in Section § 10 (1) should fall under one constituency. If the number of constituencies is less than the number of ballot counting committees elected pursuant to Section § 23 (1), the head of the local election office shall determine which ballot counting committees are obliged to operate in the by-election.