{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2007/schedule-7/paragraph-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2007/schedule-7/paragraph-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3541",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Authority Elections Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-elections-rules-2007",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "The ... calculation and resolution of equality",
  "text": "(1) As soon as the GLRO has received the information required by rule 53 from every CRO he must ascertain the total number of votes given in the Assembly constituencies to each candidate.\n(2) As soon as the GLRO has ascertained the result of the calculation, he must inform such of the election agents as are then present of the relevant figures and must give them a reasonable opportunity to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of the calculation.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “the relevant figures” means the number of votes given in each Assembly constituency for each candidate and the total number of votes given for each candidate.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Where the total number of votes given for each candidate is unequal the person to be returned as the Mayor is the candidate to whom the majority of the votes is given.\n(6) Where there is an equality in the number of votes given for any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle any of those candidates to be returned as Mayor, the GLRO must forthwith decide between those candidates by lot, and proceed as if the candidate on whom the lot falls had received an additional vote.\n(7) In a case to which paragraph (5) or (6) applies, the declaration of the person to be returned as the Mayor must be made in accordance with rule 58.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 rule 55(1) substituted (30.11.2022) by The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1111), rules 1(1), 5(7)(b) (with rule 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 rule 55(3) substituted (30.11.2022) by The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1111), rules 1(1), 5(7)(c) (with rule 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 rule 55(4) omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1111), rules 1(1), 5(7)(d) (with rule 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 7 rule 55(5)(6) substituted (30.11.2022) by The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1111), rules 1(1), 5(7)(e) (with rule 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 7 rule 55 heading omitted (30.11.2022) by virtue of The Greater London Authority Elections (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1111), rules 1(1), 5(7)(a) (with rule 1(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3541/schedule/7/paragraph/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:38:59.535013+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}