Electoral system for national legislature

Croatia, Act on the Election of Representatives to the Croatian Parliament (Consolidated Text, 2003), accessed 1 August 2024

35: 140 representatives in the Parliament shall be elected in that manner that the territory of the Republic of Croatia shall be divided in ten constituencies, and in each constituency, on the basis of lists, 14 representatives shall be elected.

37: The number of representatives that shall be elected from each list of a constituency shall be determined in the following way: The total number of valid votes that each list (the electoral mass of the list) has won is to be divided with numbers from 1 to finally 14, decimal rest also taking into account. Of all the gained results, representative seats shall win those lists on which the 14 numerically biggestresults are shown, including the decimal rests. Each of these lists shall win as much representative seats in the Parliament, as much single results among the 14 numerically biggest results it has won.

38: The right to participate in the division of representative seats in a constituency shall be exercised by those lists that shall win in the elections at least 5% of valid votes.

39: From each list, elected shall be the candidates from the ordinal number 1 to that ordinal number of how many representative seats a particular list has won. Deputy candidates from each list of a constituency shall be the candidates who have not been elected.

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