ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ Votes divided by quota Provisional allocation of Unallocated votes seats 2 10 471 Party Number of votes A 89 349 B 49 869 1 10 430 – C 40 547 1 1 108 – D 32 064 – 32 064 1 E 21 942 – 21 942 1 F 1 653 – 1 653 – G 1 210 – 1 210 – 236 634 4 78 878 2 Total Seats from unallocated votes – 7. The provincial elections officer will then declare the final allocation of seats. In this example A is allocated 2, B 1, C 1 and D 1 and E 1 as shown below. Votes divided by quota Party Number of votes A 89 349 Provisional allocation of seats 2 Seats from unallocated votes Final allocation of seats 10 471 – 2 B 49 869 1 10 430 – 1 C 40 547 1 1 108 – 1 D 32 064 – 32 064 1 1 E 21 942 – 21 942 1 1 F 1 653 – 1 653 – – G 1 210 – 1 210 – – 236 634 4 78 878 2 6 Total Unallocated votes PART IV PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS (EXAMPLE) 1. A party that has not filed a party-list nomination for election to the provincial council is not eligible to be allocated seats in the provincial council. 2. Parties that nominated party-list candidates are referred to below as “participating parties”. In this example, seven parties, A, B, C, D, E, F and G are the parties that nominated party-list candidates for the provincial council elections. The electoral district has three constituencies namely X, Y and Z. 3. The provincial elections officer must list the participating parties on a table similar to the one in the example below, starting with the party that received the most votes and ending with the party that received the least and showing the votes cast for the participating parties in each of the constituencies. In this example, 236 634 votes were cast for the participating parties as shown below. 162