(1) At any election where only one seat is ^ to he filled, every valid ballot paper shall be deemed to be of the value of 1 at each count, and the quota <tsufficient to secure the return of a candidate at the election shall be determined as follows: - ;^(a) add the value credited to all the candidates under clause (c) of rule 29;
W(b) divide the total by 2; and '̂ (c) add 1 to the quotient ignoring the remainder, if any, and the resulting number is the quota.
^(2) if, at the end of first or any subsequent count, the total value of the ballot papers credited to any 'candidate is equal to, or greater than, die quota or there is only one continuing candidate, that candidate shall S^be declared elected.
,(3) I at the end of any count, no candidate can be declared elected the Director shall- Q(a) exclude from the poll the candidate who upto that stage has been credited with the lowest value;. .
^ -(b) examine all the papers in his parcel and sub-parcels, arrange the un-exhausted papers in sub-parcels, according to the next available preference recorded fjthereon for the continuing candidate, count the number of papers in each such - sub-parcel and credit it to the candidate for whom such preference is recorded, transfer the sub-parcel to that candidate and make a separate sub-parcel of all the Wexhausted papers ;and ^,(c) see whether any of the continuing candidates has after such transfer and credit, secured the quota.
W(4) if, when a candidate has to be excluded under clause (a) of sub-rule (3), two or more candidates have been credited with the same value and stand lowest on the poll, the candidate for whom the lowest number of <Qoriginal votes are recorded shall be excluded, and if this number also is the same in the case of two or more candidates, the Director shall decide by lot which of them shall be excluded.
18DELHI GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY| PART IV/-n -• Counting of votes where two seats are to be filled.: ^^