Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011

8 In rule 50 (declaration of result), in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) there is substituted—

“(a) declare the number of votes obtained by each candidate (including any reallocated in accordance with rule 45A above), starting with the candidate with the fewest and proceeding in order to the candidate with the most;

(aa) declare which is the candidate who (in accordance with that rule) is elected;

(ab) declare the stage at which each eliminated candidate was eliminated and the stage at which the elected candidate was elected;

(b) return the name of the elected candidate to the Clerk of the Crown;

(c) give public notice of the name of the elected candidate, the number of rejected ballot papers under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers, the number of votes allocated to each candidate in accordance with voters’ first preferences, and for each subsequent stage of counting—

(i) the name of the eliminated candidate,

(ii) the number of votes reallocated to each of the remaining candidates, and

(iii) the number of votes of the candidate eliminated at the previous stage that were not reallocated.”