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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nu1Dnk" data-source="post: 16445112" data-attributes="member: 263357">Election department eken gatte meka. lawata terunata legal wachana ekka nikan ana panath kiyanne apita andara demala wagene. meka pehediliwa therum karala denna puluwan law side eke kenek innawanam goda denekta prayojanawath wei api dena chandayen kohomada mantri waru theeranaya karanne kiyala...Article 99 of Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution   99 (1) At any election of Members of Parliament. The total number of members which an electoral district is entitled to return shall be the number specified by the Commissioner of Elections in the Order published in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (8) of Article 98.   (2) Every elector at an election of Members of Parliament shall, in addition to his vote, be entitled to indicate his preferences for not more than three candidates nominated by the same recognized political party or independent group.   (3) Any recognized political party or any group of persons contesting as independent candidates (hereinafter referred to as an “independent group”) may for the purpose of any election of members of Parliament for any electoral district, submit one nomination paper setting out the names of such number of candidates as is equivalent to the number of members to be elected for that electoral district, increased by three.   (4) Each elector whose name appears in the register of electors shall be entitled to only one vote notwithstanding that his name appears in the electoral register in more than one electoral district.   (5) The recognized political party or independent group which polls the highest number of votes in any electoral district shall be entitled to have the candidate nominated by it who has secured the highest number of preferences, declared elected   (6) (a) Every recognized political party and independent group polling less than one eighth of the total votes polled at any elections in any electoral district shall be disqualified from having any candidates of such party or group being elected for that electoral district.   (b) The votes polled by the disqualified parties and independent groups, if any, shall be deducted from the total votes polled at the election in that electoral district and the number of votes resulting from such deduction is hereinafter referred to as the “relevant number of votes”   (7) The relevant number of votes shall be divided by the number of members to be elected for that electoral district reduced by one. If the number resulting from such division is an integer, that integer, or if that number is an integer and fraction, the integer immediately higher to that integer and fraction is hereinafter referred to as the “resulting number”   (8) The number of votes polled by each recognised political party and independent group (other that those parties or groups disqualified under paragraph (6) of this Article) beginning with the party or group which polled the highest number of votes shall then be divided by the resulting number and the returning officer shall declare elected from each such party or group, in accordance with the preferences secured by each of the candidates nominated by such party or group (the candidate securing the highest number of preferences being declared elected first, the candidate securing the next highest number of preferences being declared elected next and so on) such number of candidates (excluding the candidate declared elected under paragraph (5) of this Article) as is equivalent to the whole number resulting from the division by the resulting number of the votes polled by such party or group. The remainder of the votes, is any, after such division, shall be dealt with if necessary, under paragraph (9) of this Article.   (9) Where after the declaration of the election of members as provided in paragraph (8) of this Article there are one or more members yet to be declared elected, such member or members shall be declared elected by reference to the remainder of the votes referred to in paragraph (8) to the credit of each party or group after the declaration made under that paragraph and the votes polled by any party or group not having any of its candidates declared elected under paragraph (8) the candidate nominated by the party or group having the highest of such votes, who has secured the highest or next highest number of preferences being declared elected a member and so on until all the members to be elected are declared elected.   (10) (a) Where the number of votes polled by each recognized political party or independent group is less than the resulting number referred to in paragraph (7) of this Article the party or group which has polled the highest number of votes shall be entitled to have the candidate nominated by that party or group (excluding the candidate declared elected under paragraph (5) of this Article) who has secures the highest number of preferences declared elected and if there are one or more members yet to be declared elected, the party or group having the next highest number or votes polled shall be entitled to have the candidate nominated by that party or group who has secured the highest number of preferences declared elected and so on, until all the members to be elected for that electoral district are declared elected under the provisions of this paragraph.   (b) After the determination under paragraph (a) if there are one or more members yet to be declared elected in respect of that electoral district the provisions of that paragraph shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the election of such members.   (11) Where under paragraph (5) of (9) or (10) of this Article an equality is found to exist between the votes polled by two or more recognized political parties or two or more independent groups or any combination of them and the addition of a vote would entitle the candidate of one such party or group to be elected, the determination of the party or group to which such additional vote shall be deemed to have been given shall be made by lot.   (12) For the purposes of this Article the number of votes polled shall be deemed to be the number of votes counted other than rejected votes.</blockquote>

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