Election Method for National Minority Council Members

(1) National minority council members shall be elected through a majority electoral system where the entire area of the unit shall constitute a single electoral constituency.
(2) Pursuant to the constitutional law governing national minority rights, the national minority councils of municipalities shall elect 10 members, the national minority councils of cities shall elect 15 members, and the national minority councils of counties and the City of Zagreb shall each elect 25 members of a national minority.
(3) The candidates for national minority council members shall be elected in the order of largest number of votes cast by voters they received.
(4) If due to an equal number of votes cast for candidates the number of elected candidates under paragraph 2 of this Article cannot be determined, the number of elected candidates shall be less than the number of national minority council members under paragraph 2 of this Article.
(5) The number of elected candidates under paragraph 4 of this Article cannot be less than 6 members in a national minority council for a municipality, 8 members in a national minority council for a city, or 13 members in a national minority council for a county or the City of Zagreb.
(6) If due to an equal number of votes cast for each candidate the number of council members should be less than the number under paragraph 5 of this Article, the second ballot shall take place on the fourteenth day after the first ballot.
(7) In the second ballot, the election shall take place between the candidates who, due to an equal number of votes cast in the first ballot, are deemed non-elected.