Chapter 11

ESTABLISHING THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS

FROM NATIONAL LISTS OF CANDIDATES

FOR DEPUTIES TO THE SEJM.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF ELECTIONS

TO THE SEJM
Article 117

After having received the records from the constituency electoral commissions and made examination of the correctness of the establishment of the results of elections in constituencies, the National Electoral Commission shall state, in compliance with the provisions of Article 5, para. 1, which national lists have fulfilled the requirements for entitlement to participate in the distribution of seats pursuant to Article 4 or Article 7.

Article 118

1. The National Electoral Commission shall perform, in compliance with Article 112, the allotment of seats among those national lists so entitled, as follows:

1) the number of votes validly cast for all constituency lists of a given election committee shall be divided successively by: 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on up to the moment when it is possible to make a sequence of the highest numbers in succession from the quotients thus obtained as there are seats to be allocated amongst the lists,

2) each list shall be alloted as many seats as it has received highest consecutive numbers attributed to it from the sequence of quotients obtained in the manner prescribed above.

2. If several lists have shown quotients equal to the last number from among the numbers arranged in the manner prescribed above, and there are more of those lists than seats to be allotted, priority shall be given to the lists of election committees which have gained more seats in constituencies. If the lists of two or more election committees have gained identical numbers of seats in constituencies, priority shall be given to the lists of that election committee which has received the higher number of votes cast throughout the country.

Article 119

1. The seats falling to a given national list shall be allotted to the candidates in the order in which their names have been placed on the list - with the omission of any candidates who have already obtained seats in constituencies.

2. If the number of seats falling to a given list is higher than the number of candidates which may obtain seats, then those seats shall be distributed to the remaining lists in the order of the highest consecutive quotients shown.

Article 120

The National Electoral Commission shall draw up the record of election of the deputies to the Sejm from the national lists of candidates, stating:

1) the specification of national lists registered;

2) the number of votes validly cast for all constituency lists throughout the entire country;

3) the number of votes validly cast throughout the entire country for constituency lists of each election committee which has registered a national list, as well as its percentage share in the number of votes cast for all constituency lists throughout the entire country;

4) the specification of which national lists participated in the allotment of seats;

5) the number of seats allocated to particular national lists;

6) surnames and forenames of elected deputies to the Sejm, with indication of the numbers and names of the national lists from which they were elected, as well as the numbers of constituencies in which they had stood for election.

Article 121

1. After having made the record referred to in Article 120, the National Electoral Commission shall publicize the results of elections to the Sejm in the form of an announcement. The announcement shall comprise basic information contained in the records of elections of deputies to the Sejm in constituencies and in the record of elections of deputies to the Sejm from national lists of candidates for deputies to the Sejm.

2. The announcement referred to in para. 1 shall be published immediately in a daily newspaper with nationwide circulation and shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Poland - "Monitor Polski".

3. The National Electoral Commission shall publish a statistical study containing detailed information on the results of voting and the results of elections to the Sejm.

4. The National Electoral Commission shall determine, in consultation with the Director General of the State Archives, a time-limit for retention of and the manner of delivery to the appropriate state archives of the documents pertaining to voting and elections, referred to in Article 107 and Article 115, para. 2.

Article 122

The National Electoral Commission shall issue to the elected deputies to the Sejm certificates confirming their election.

Article 123

The National Electoral Commission shall submit, no later than the 7th day after publication of the announcement referred to in Article 121, para. 1, a report on the elections to the Marshal of the Sejm and to the Supreme Court.