Section 11: Return of Island region members
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11. Return of Island region members
(1) The first seat for the Island region shall be allocated to the registered
political party with the highest Island region figure.
(2) The second and subsequent seats for the Island region shall be allocated to the registered political party with the highest Island region figure
after any recalculation required by subsection (3) has been carried out.
(3) There shall be a recalculation of a registered political party’s Island
regional figure under section 10—
(a) for the application of subsection (2), if the application of subsection (1) resulted in the allocation of a seat to the party; or
(b) for any subsequent application of subsection (2), if the previous
application of that subsection did so, provided that for any recalculation of a party’s Island region figure, the dividing figure shall
be the aggregate of one and the previous aggregate figure used
to calculate the Island region figure of the registered political
party.
(4) Seats for the Island region allocated to any registered political party
shall be filled by the persons on the party’s list in the order of precedence in
which they appear on the list.
(5) Once a registered political party’s list has been exhausted by the return of persons included on it as members for the Island region by the previous application of subsection (1) or (2), the party shall be disregarded.
(6) Where, on the application of subsection (1) or (2), the highest Island
region figure is that of 2 or more registered political parties, the subsection
shall apply to each of them.
(7) Where the application of subsection (6) would result in the allocation
of more than the full number of seats for the Regional Assembly Island region, subsection (1) or (2) shall not apply until a recalculation of the Island
region figure has been carried out after adding one to the number of votes
given for each registered political party with that Island region figure.
(8) Where, after the application of subsection (7), the highest Island region figure is still that of 2 or more registered political parties, the Electoral
Commissioner shall decide between them by lots.
(9) No party shall be entitled to any seat for the Island region unless it
has scored at least 10 per cent of the total number of Island region votes
expressed for all the parties.
(10) Where, following the return of the Island region members in accordance with subsections (1) to (9), a registered party having obtained 7 or
more of the 12 local region seats, finally finds itself with a total of less than
10 of the 17 seats, there shall be allocated to that party such number
of additional seats as may be necessary to ensure that it disposes in the
Regional Assembly of an overall majority of 3 seats.
[S. 11 amended by s. 8 of Act 29 of 2016 w.e.f. 28 December 2016.]
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