Section 7: Calculation of regional figures.

Scotland Act 1998 · 1998 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: The Scottish Parliament

The persons who are to be returned as constituency members for constituencies included in the region must be determined before the persons who are to be returned as the regional members for the region.

For each registered political party which has submitted a regional list, the regional figure for the purposes of section 8 is—

the total number of regional votes given for the party in all the constituencies included in the region,
the aggregate of one plus the number of candidates of the party returned as constituency members for any of those constituencies.

divided by

Each time a seat is allocated to the party under section 8, that figure shall be recalculated by increasing (or further increasing) the aggregate in subsection (2)(b) by one.

For each individual candidate to be a regional member for the region, the regional figure for the purposes of section 8 is the total number of regional votes given for him in all the constituencies included in the region.

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