Rule 52 Exclusion of candidates – supplementary provisionsI1

Scotland

(1)

If, when a candidate has to be excluded under rule 51—

(a)

two or more candidates each have the same number of votes; and

(b)

no other candidate has fewer votes,

paragraph (2) applies.

(2)

Where this paragraph applies—

(a)

regard shall be had to the total number of votes credited to those candidates at the end of the most recently preceding stage of the count at which they had an unequal number of votes and the candidate with the lowest number of votes at that stage shall be excluded; and

(b)

where the number of votes credited to those candidates was equal at all stages, the returning officer shall decide, by lot, which of those candidates is to be excluded.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 1 rule 52 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)

Notes on Schedule 1

Modifications

C1: Sch. 1 modified (16.12.2015) by The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/425), art. 1(1), sch. 5 Pt. 3 (with art. 1(2))