Article 961. Procedure for determining the results of elections to the Legislative Chamber in a single electoral district and the distribution of deputy seats

The seats of deputies of the Legislative Chamber, elected in a single electoral district, shall be distributed among political parties that receive seven or more percent of the votes of voters who took part in these elections.

The distribution of seats of deputies of the Legislative Chamber, elected in a single electoral district, between political parties for which less than seven percent of voters who took part in the elections voted shall not be permitted, except in cases provided for in part three of this Article.

If only one political party has received seven or more percent of the votes of voters who took part in the elections, then the seats in the parliament will also be distributed to the second political party that received the largest number of votes in the elections.

The distributed seats shall be calculated in the following order:

1) the total number of votes cast for political parties among which deputy seats are distributed in accordance with parts one, two and three of this article is determined;

2) the number of votes determined in accordance with paragraph 1 of this part is divided by seventy-five. The result obtained is considered the electoral coefficient;

3) the number of votes cast for each political party, between which the seats are distributed, in accordance with parts one, two and three of this article, is divided by the electoral coefficient and the whole number obtained in this way will be equal to the number of seats allocated to each political party.

If, after the distribution of deputy seats in the manner established by part four of this article, there remain undistributed deputy seats, the remaining deputy seats shall be distributed in the manner provided for in part six of this article.

Undistributed deputy seats shall be distributed by granting one mandate to the political party with the largest remainder (up to six decimal places) of the number determined in the manner established in paragraph 3 of part four of this article. In the event of a tie in the remaining portion, priority shall be given to the political party that has received the greater number of votes.

The Central Election Commission shall draw up a protocol on the distribution of deputy mandates among political parties.