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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011

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10(1)In rule 61 (deceased independent candidate wins), in paragraph (1), for “the majority of votes is given to the deceased candidate” there is substituted “the deceased candidate would have been elected (in accordance with rule 45A above) had he not died”.

(2)In paragraph (2) of that rule, for sub-paragraph (a) there is substituted—

“(a)declare the number of votes obtained by each candidate (including any reallocated in accordance with rule 45A above), starting with the candidate with the fewest and proceeding in order to the candidate with the most,

(aa)declare that the deceased candidate would have been elected had he not died,”.

(3)For sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph there is substituted—

“(c)give public notice of the number of rejected ballot papers under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers, the number of votes allocated to each candidate in accordance with voters’ first preferences, and for each subsequent stage of counting—

(i)the name of the candidate eliminated,

(ii)the number of votes reallocated to each of the remaining candidates, and

(iii)the number of votes of the candidate eliminated at the previous stage that were not reallocated.”

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