F13 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 F2a 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.