# The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2007, Paragraph 46: The quota


(1) The returning officer shall divide the total number of valid ballot papers for the electoral ward by a number exceeding by one the number of councillors to be elected at the election for that electoral ward.
(2) The result of the division under paragraph (1) (ignoring any decimal places), increased by one, is the number of votes needed to secure the return of a candidate as a councillor (in these rules referred to as the “quota”).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2007/0110714245/schedule/1/paragraph/46 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-local-government-elections-order-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-46
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