191Election of other members

1. When the Electoral Commission has received from all Returning Officers the information required by section 179(1) to be forwarded to the Electoral Commission, the Electoral Commission must proceed to determine which of the candidates whose names have been included in party lists submitted pursuant to section 127 have been elected.

2. The Electoral Commission must first ascertain from the information given under section 179(1)(a) the total number of all the party votes received by each of the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

3. The Electoral Commission must enter those totals in separate columns under the name of each party in a working sheet in the manner specified in a form that the Electoral Commission has approved.

4. The Electoral Commission must disregard any total under the name of any party that—

5. has not achieved a total that is at least 5% of the total number of all the party votes received by all the parties listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote; and
6. is a party in respect of which no constituency candidate who is either—has had his or her name endorsed on the writ pursuant to section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament.
   1. a candidate for that party; or
   2. a candidate for a component party of that party (being a component party that is not listed on the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote but is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127(3A) and 128A, a component party of that party)—

7. Where the Electoral Commission disregards the name of a party in accordance with subsection (4), that party shall, for the purpose of this section and sections 192 and 193, be deemed to have been deleted from the list of parties included in the part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote.

8. The Electoral Commission must then proceed to divide each of the remaining totals successively by a series of numbers beginning with 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and thereafter by every odd number as may be necessary to ensure that the number of seats required to be allocated by this section and sections 192 and 193 are allocated.

9. The quotient of each successive division shall be recorded on the working sheet.

10. Once the quotient of each successive division is entered on the working sheet, the Electoral Commission must then proceed to ascertain from a comparison of all the figures in the working sheet in form 15 listed under the heading Quotients of divisions, the highest 120 quotients or such lower number as is required by subsection (8).

11. If any person whose name is endorsed on the writ pursuant to section 185 as a person declared to be elected as a member of Parliament, is—

12. an independent; or
13. a member of a political party that did not appear on the list of parties in that part of the ballot paper that relates to the party vote (not being a political party that is, in accordance with the details held by the Electoral Commission under any of the provisions of sections 127(3A) and 128A, a component party of a political party that did appear on that list),—
the Electoral Commission must, for the purposes of applying subsection (7), deduct from the number of 120 the number of any such persons.

14. In any case where the lowest of the numbers required to be ascertained under subsection (7) constitutes 2 or more numbers in different columns which are of exactly the same value, the Electoral Commission must determine by lot which of those numbers is to be selected for the purpose of subsection (7).

15. The Electoral Commission, having ascertained the numbers required by subsection (7), must cause a circle to be drawn on the working sheet around each of those numbers.