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59.—[(1) As soon as the police area returning officer has received the information required by rule 57 from every local returning officer, the police area returning officer must ascertain the total number of votes given in the police area to each candidate.]
(2) As soon as the police area returning officer has ascertained the result of the calculation, the officer must inform such of the election agents as are then present of the relevant figures and must give them a reasonable opportunity to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of the calculation.
(3) A person informed of the relevant figures under paragraph (2) may require the police area returning officer to make a calculation again but the officer may refuse to do so if in the officer's opinion the request is unreasonable.
[(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3), “the relevant figures” means the total number of votes given in the police area for each candidate.]
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) ... The person to be returned to the office of police and crime commissioner for the police area is the candidate to whom the majority of the votes is given.
[(7) Where no single candidate receives a majority of the votes, and the highest number of votes is shared between two or more candidates who have received an equal number of votes, the police area returning officer must decide, by drawing lots, which of those candidates is to be returned to the office of police and crime commissioner for the police area.]
(8) In a case to which paragraph (6) or (7) applies, the declaration of the person to be returned to the office of police and crime commissioner for the police area must be made in accordance with rule 62.
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