6Voting

6 Voting

(1)  Voting is to be carried out by secret ballot at a meeting of the council.

(2)  Each councillor is to vote for one candidate by striking through the names of the other candidates for whom the councillor does not intend to vote.

(3)  The councillor appointed to preside at the ballot may vote as a councillor.

(4)  If the names of more than 2 candidates appear on the ballot paper and no candidate receives a simple majority, the following procedure applies:

(a) the candidate who received the smallest number of votes is to be excluded as a candidate;

(b) new ballot papers, which have the names of the continuing candidates printed on them in alphabetical order, are to be prepared;

(c) one of those new ballot papers is to be given to each councillor present at the meeting, whether a candidate or not;

(d) voting is to take place in accordance with subregulation (2) .

(5)  The procedure specified in subregulation (4) is to be repeated until one candidate receives a simple majority.