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1999 Electoral Code amended 2007

Article 77.  Determination and Official Publication of Elections’ Results

1.  On the basis of the protocols from precinct election commissions, by way of summing up data contained in them, the Central Election Commission shall perform the counting of votes taken for each list in a single electoral district.

2.  Political parties, whose lists of candidates received

- less than five percent of votes of voters, included into voter lists, in the whole republic

- less than 0,5% of votes of voters, included into voter lists, in each oblast, cities of Bishkek and Osh.

shall be excluded from the distribution of deputy’s mandates in a single-member electoral district.

Political parties, whose lists received five and more percent of votes of citizens included into electoral registers, shall receive deputy’s mandates, the number of which shall be determined in accordance with the method stipulated in paragraph 3 of this Article. 

3.  The Central Election Commission shall count the number of votes taken in a single electoral district for candidates’ lists of political parties having received five and more percent of votes of citizens included into electoral registers.  This total number of votes shall be divided by 90, the number of deputy’s mandates distributed in the single-member electoral district.  Received result shall be the first electoral quotient (the quota for receiving one mandate).

Then the number of votes received by every candidates’ list participating in the distribution of deputy’s mandates shall be divided by the first electoral quotient.  The whole part of the number received as a result of division shall be the number of deputy’s mandates to be given to the relevant list of candidates.

If after these actions are performed in accordance with the second part of this paragraph, there are undistributed mandates left over, then a secondary distribution shall be performed.  Undistributed mandates shall be transferred one by one to those lists of candidates, which have the largest fractional part of the number obtained as a result of division in accordance with the second subparagraph of this paragraph.  In case fractional parts are equal, the preference shall be given to the list of candidates which received more votes.  If the number of votes taken is equal, then the preference shall be given to a list of candidates which was registered earlier. 

4.  Distribution of deputy’s mandates among candidates within a given political party’s list shall be performed in accordance with the order of candidates’ placement in their list, established during the registration of the list with the Central Election Commission.