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Article 10
 



  1. The House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of BiH shall determine, based solely on the guidelines set forth in this Article, the number of mandates, as well as boundaries of multi-member constituencies and the number of compensatory mandates. 






  1. Of 98 mandates for the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, between twenty-three percent (23%) and twenty-seven percent (27%) shall be compensatory mandates. The remaining mandates shall be allocated in multi-member constituencies. 








  1. There shall be a minimum of ten multi-member constituencies. A multi-member constituency shall have a minimum of three members and a maximum of 15 membersThe Brčko District shall be included in one of these multi-member constituencies. 






  1. The number of mandates for a constituency shall be determined as follows: The number of voters registered in the Central Voters’ Register for the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, as determined by the Central Election Commission of BiH, shall be divided by the total number of constituency mandates to be allocated. The number of voters registered in the Central Voters’ Register for that constituency shall be divided by the quotient resulting from the previous division to determine the number of mandates to which the constituency is entitledMandates which cannot be allocated based on whole numbers shall be allocated to constituencies on the basis of the highest remainders.