Distribution of seats in the Municipal Assembly 

8.1 Seats in each municipal assembly shall be distributed as follows:

i. The total number of valid votes received by each political entity in a municipality shall be divided by 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15 et seq.until the number of divisors used corresponds with the total number of seats to be distributed for that Municipal Assembly;

ii. The quotients resulting from this series of divisions shall be arranged in descending order. Seats shall be allocated to Political Entities according to the quotients, with the first seat going to the Entity with the largest quotients, the second seat going to the Entity with the next largest quotient, et seq. until all seats of the respective Municipal Assembly are allocated.

iii. If a Political Entity is allocated seats equal to the number of candidates in its list and there are still seats to be allocated to that political entity, then the remaining quotients of that political entity shall not be taken into account in allocating any remaining seats. Subsequent quotients in descending order shall be used until all seats in that Municipal Assembly are allocated.

iv. If a tie occurs because two or more quotients are identical, the seat shall be allocated on the basis of a drawing of lots by the chairperson of the CEC in the presence of the authorized representatives of the Political Entities concerned.

8.2 All votes received by the candidates, appearing on the candidate list of each Political Entity shall be counted separately. The candidate lists shall then be reordered in descending order based on the number of votes received by each candidate.

8.3 The seats allocated to a Political Entity under paragraph 1 of this Article, shall be distributed to the candidates on the Political Entity’s candidate list as reordered in paragraph 2 of this Article, starting from the first candidate on the reordered candidate list in strict descending order, until the number of seats allocated to the Political Entity.

8.4 If, after the allocation of seats as set out in paragraph 3 of this Article, the candidates of minority gender within a political entity have not been allocated at least 30% of the total seats for that political entity, the last elected candidate of the majority gender will be replaced by the next eligible candidate of the opposite gender on the reordered candidate list until the total number of seats allocated to the minority gender becomes is at least 30%.