METHOD OF COUNTING VOTES
First choice of each candidate to be counted.]
1. The number of first choices recorded for each candidate shall be counted, and all informal voting papers shall be rejected.
To find the quota.
2. The aggregate number of such first choices shall be divided by one more than the number of candidates required to be elected, and the quotient increased by one, disregarding any remainder, shall be the quota, and (except as hereinafter provided in Rule 10) no candidate shall be elected until he obtains a number of votes equal to or greater than the quota.
Candidates who have the quota to be declared elected.
3. Any candidate who has, upon the first choices being counted, a number of such votes equal to or greater than the quota shall be declared elected.
If first choices exactly equal to quota, voting papers to be set aside.
4. Where the number of such votes obtained by any candidate is equal to the quota, the whole of the voting papers on which a first choice is recorded for such elected candidate shall be set aside as finally dealt with.
If a surplus, surplus to be transferred.