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Article 5
 

In each electoral zone, number of members to be elected are calculated with method mentioned below.


             a) For membership of provincial councils, according to the recent census:


             In districts of which population is up to 25 000                                                               2


             In districts of which population is up to 50 000                                                               3           


             In districts of which population is up to 50 001-75 000                                                    4        


             In districts of which population is up to 75 001-100 000                                                  5      


     Original membership and equal amount of reserve memberships are calculated.


In districts  of which population is up to  100 000, for each additional 100 000 population, one original and one reserve members are added. In calculating dividing the population to 100 000, in case the remaining number is less then 50 000 then it will not included into counting, in case it exceeds 50 000, one original and reserve member are added.            


  b) For elections of memberships of municipal councils due to general census:


             In tows of which population is up to 10 000                                                                 9


            In tows of which population is up to 10 001-20 000                                                      11


            In tows of which population is up to 20 001-50 000                                                      15            


            In tows of which population is up to 50 001-100 000                                                    25          


            In tows of which population is up to 100 001-250 000                                                  31


            In tows of which population is up to 250 001-500 000                                                  37       


            In tows of which population is up to 500 001-1 000 000                                               45


            In tows of which population is up more than 1 000 000                                                55     


            Numbers of original and reserve members are calculated.