Count—3 or more candidates
7 Count—3 or more candidates
If there are 3 or more candidates, the one with the lowest number of votes is to be excluded.
If 3 or more candidates then remain, a further vote is to be taken of those candidates and the one with the lowest number of votes from that further vote is to be excluded.
If, after that, 3 or more candidates still remain, the procedure set out in subsection (2) is to be repeated until only 2 candidates remain.
A further vote is to be taken of the 2 remaining candidates.
Section 6 of this Schedule then applies to the determination of the election as if the 2 remaining candidates had been the only candidates.
If at any stage during a count under subsection (1) or (2), 2 or more candidates are tied on the lowest number of votes, the one excluded is to be chosen by lot.
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