Substitutes for a municipal assembly shall, in the first instance, be appointed on the basis of the order between the candidates produced in the calculation of their number of personal votes in accordance with Section 9.

In the second instance, substitutes shall be appointed by a calculation within the party for which they have been elected. In each calculation, regard shall only be given to those ballot papers that include the member’s name and that therefore applied for that name, when they got a place in the order. Every ballot paper applies as a whole vote. The value of the number of votes shall be accredited to the name that appears highest on the paper among those who have not been appointed as members. The person who receives the greatest number of votes shall be appointed as a substitute for the member to whom the calculation relates.

If the number of substitutes that have been appointed is less than the number that the municipal assembly has determined in accordance with Chapter 5, Section 8, second paragraph of the Local Government Act (1991:900) and the same substitutes have been appointed for three or more members, a further substitute shall be appointed for each one of these members. In that case, the name of a candidate who, through the election, has been appointed as substitute for the member to whom the calculation relates shall also be deemed non-existent. Otherwise, the procedure is as stated in the first and second paragraphs.
If the number of substitutes is still less than the number that the municipal assembly has determined in accordance with Chapter 5, Section 8, second paragraph of the Local Government Act and the same substitutes have been appointed for five or more members, a further substitute shall be appointed for each one of these members.

Thereafter, successive further calculations are made correspondingly for the members whose substitutes have been appointed for seven or more members, nine or more members, and so on, for as long as the number of substitutes is less than the number that the municipal assembly has determined.

If the proportion of substitutes for the places that a party received is not a whole number, this shall be rounded up to the next whole number.