{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011/schedule-1/rule-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011/schedule-1/rule-47.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/399",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Local Government Elections Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-local-government-elections-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/rule/47",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "The quota",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) The result of the division under paragraph (1) (ignoring any decimal places), increased by one, is the number of votes sufficient to secure the return of a candidate as a councillor (in these rules referred to as the “quota”).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 47 in force at 10.11.2011 except for the purposes of any election to be held on or before 2.5.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/399/schedule/1/rule/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:47:08.568170+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."
}