(1) The compensatory and the national minority compensatory list will obtain mandates in proportion to the surplus votes aggregated in the constituency.

(2) Each vote cast on the candidate of the nominating organisation in the single mandate constituency by which no mandate has been obtained will be considered as surplus vote.

(3) Votes cast on joint candidates considered as surplus votes will be put on the joint compensatory list of nominating organisations that have put forward a joint candidate.

(3a) Votes cast on single member constituency national minority candidates that have not won a mandate shall be considered as surplus votes transferable to the compensatory national minority list.

(4) Form of calculation of compensatory mandate:

a) a table shall be compiled, in which a column of figures shall be made under the name of each list. The first number in the column of figures will be the number of votes of the given list. The following numbers of the column of figures will be the number of votes of the given list divided by three, five, seven, by turns, the new divisor will be the value of the previous divisor increased by two.

b) The greatest number in the list shall be found, and the list in the column of figures of which we find it will be given one mandate. After that, the next greatest number shall be found. The list in the column of figures of which we find it will be given one mandate. This procedure shall be continued until all of the mandates have been allocated.

c) If in searching for the greatest number occurring in the table there are equal greatest numbers, then mandate will be given to the list that has not obtained any mandate yet, or that has been given less mandates, finally, that has been given a lower serial number in drawing the list.

(5) If a compensatory or national minority list receives more mandates than the number of the persons included in the list, the mandate will remain unfilled.