§ Section 41(untitled)

(1) The election results of the local
government election commission shall be calculated according to
the reports which they have received from the polling station
commissions.
(2) The lists of candidates which have received less than five
per cent of the total votes given in the elections of this local
government shall not participate in distribution of seats of
councillors. The number of valid ballot envelopes shall be deemed
to be the total number of votes given (the total number of voters
who participated in the elections).
(3) In order to distribute the seats of the councillors among
lists of candidates, the following procedures shall be
applied:
1) the number of valid ballot papers given for each list of
candidates shall be determined;
2) the number of ballot papers given for each list of
candidates shall be then sequentially divided by 1, 3, 5, 7 and
so on until the number of divisions is the same as the number of
candidates nominated in the list of candidates;
3) all the acquired divisions regarding all lists of
candidates shall be numbered in common descending order;
4) seats of councillors shall sequentially be received by
those lists of candidates which conform to the largest
divisions.
(4) If a division, the sequence number of which complies with
the number of councillors to be elected, is equal to one or
several subsequent divisions, a seat of the councillor shall be
received by a list which has acquired more votes.
(5) If such lists of candidates have acquired equal number of
votes, a seat of the councillor shall be received by the list of
candidates that has been registered first.
(6) In each list of candidates, the nominated candidates shall
be listed according to the number of votes received. The number
of votes cast for a candidate shall be equal to the number of
votes which were cast for the list of candidates in which this
candidate was included, minus the number of ballot papers in
which the given name or surname of this candidate was struck out,
plus the number of those ballot papers in which voters made a "+"
mark opposite the surname of this candidate. If two or more
candidates of the same list of candidates have received an equal
number of votes, they shall be mutually listed according to the
sequence provided for by the submitters of the list of
candidates.
(7) Those candidates shall be elected who have received the
largest number of votes, but the remainder shall be recorded as
candidates in such sequence as they were listed according to the
number of votes which were cast for them.
[6 November 1996; 6 December 1996; 6 April 2000; 11
November 2004; 26 April 2007; 2 October 2008; 17 June
2020]