(a)
votes shall be cast throughout Guyana in favour of lists of
candidates;
(b)
each elector shall have one vote and may cast it in favour of any of
the lists; and
(c)
the seats of the said elected members in the Assembly, as determined
under this paragraph, shall be allocated between the lists in such a
manner that the proportion that the number of such seats allocated
to each list bears to the number of votes cast in favour of that list is
as nearly as may be the same for each list, thus minimizing the level
of disproportionality between the percentages of votes earned by
lists and the percentages of seats allocated to lists in the cases of
individual geographical constituencies, if they exist, and of the
Assembly taken as a whole.
(2)
Parliament may make provision for the division of Guyana into such
number of geographical constituencies, not being more than half the number
of the elected members of the Assembly as Parliament may prescribe and
for the election in each such constituency of such number of members of
the Assembly as Parliament shall, subject to paragraph (4), prescribe; but,
if Parliament makes provisions as aforesaid, then –
(a)
a person may stand as a candidate for election in any such
geographical constituency only if, in such manner as Parliament
may prescribe, he or she has declared that he or she supports, or has
otherwise identified himself or herself with one and only one of the
lists related to that geographical constituency, not with a list in any
other geographical constituency; and not with any lists of another
party; and
(b)
those of the said seats in the Assembly as determined under
paragraph (1), for which members are not elected in geographical