The Health Board Elections (Scotland) Regulations 2009

The quota

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39.—(1) The returning officer must divide the total number of valid ballot papers by a number exceeding by one the number of elected members to be elected in the Health Board election.

(2) The result of that division (rounding down any decimal places), increased by one, is the number of votes needed to secure the return of a candidate as an elected member (the “quota”).