PARTY LIST REPRESENTATIVES

Number of Seols Avoiloble to Pqrtv-List Represenlolives: 55

HOW TO COMPUTE FOR GUARANTEED SEAT (GS)

* Note:The porty should receive of leost 2% of the totolvotes costed

All exomples ore ioken from Toble 3 (p.245)

Exomple:
Tolol Number of votes of BUHAY: 1,169,234
Totol Number of votes cost: 15,950,900

FORMU[A:

Totalnumber of votes of aparty list candidate

o/o
- x 100
Totalnumber of votes cast
I,t69,234
o/t
- 15,950,900
x 100

o/o:O.07330X100

o/o
= 7.33

Thus, BUHAY is enlitled to 1 guoronteed seot.

* We ronk the porties. orgonizotions, ond coolitions from the highest io the lowesi bosed
on the number of votes they gornered during the elections (see Toble 3)

*All the 2-percenters ore guoronteed one (1) seot.

*Get the difference beiween the moximum seots reserved under ihe Porty-List Sysiem
ond the guoronteed seots of the two-percenters
So,55-17=38
*38 is lhe number of remoininq seqts

ROUND 2

"Using the percenloge of votes, you will hove to multiply it to lhe number of
remoining seots ovoiloble lo come up with ihe number of oddiiionol seots
Exomple:

BUHAY: 7.33%
38X.0733=2.7854

Thus, BUHAY is entitled lo lwo (2) oddilionql seols

CIBAC: 4.74%
38X.0474 = 1.8

Thus, CIBAC is enlitled lo one (1) odditionol seot.

"Afler oll the two-percenlers were given lheir guorqnleed ond odditionql seols,
ond there ore slill unoccupied seols, ihose seots sholl be distributed lo the
remoining porty-lists (which did not ocquire lwo percent vote) qnd those higher
in ronk in lhe voling shol! be priorilized until oll lhe seots ore occupied

YACAP: 1.95%
38X.0195=0.741 )'l
Thus, BANAT is enlilled lo one ('l) seot

BANAT: '1.11%
38X.0111 =0.4218)l
Thus, BANAT is entilled lo one (1) seot

COCOFED:0.98%
38X.0098=0.3724)1
Thus, COCOFED is entitled lo one (l) seot