{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-64U",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-64U.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/1459",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-elections-principal-areas-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/64U",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "64U",
  "heading": "Order of exclusion",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) the returning officer is deciding which candidate to exclude under rule 64S(2),\n(b) two or more candidates each have the same number of votes, and\n(c) no other candidate has fewer votes.\n(2) The returning officer must exclude whichever of the candidates had the lowest number of votes at the earliest stage of the count at which they had an unequal number of votes.\n(3) Where the number of votes credited to the candidates was equal at all stages, the returning officer must—\n(a) decide between the candidates by lot, and\n(b) the candidate on whom the lot falls must be excluded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 4A inserted (9.10.2023) by The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Single Transferable Vote) (Wales) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1064), rules 1(2), 8(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/1459/schedule/2/paragraph/64U",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:54.669941+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."
}