F23 Electoral system in Great Britain.
1
The system of election in an electoral region in Great Britain shall be a regional list system complying with the following conditions.
2
A vote may be cast for a registered party, or an individual candidate, named on the ballot paper.
3
The first seat shall be allocated to the party or individual candidate with the greatest number of votes.
4
The second and subsequent seats shall be allocated in the same way, except that the number of votes given to a party to which one or more seats have already been allocated shall be divided by the number of seats allocated plus one.
5
In allocating the second or any subsequent seat there shall be disregarded any votes given to—
a
a party to which there has already been allocated a number of seats equal to the number of names on the party’s list of candidates, and
b
an individual candidate to whom a seat has already been allocated.
6
Seats allocated to a party shall be filled by the persons named on the party’s list of candidates in the order in which they appear on that list.
7
For the purposes of subsections (3) and (4) fractions shall be taken into account.
8
In this section—
a
“registered party” means F3a party registered under Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000;
b
a reference to a party’s “list of candidates” is a reference to the list submitted in accordance with regulations made as required by paragraph 2(3B) of Schedule 1.