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The novel part of the process really begins here. At the national count centre, the ordinary party vote percentages in each constituency for the ''first'' and ''second'' ranked parties are then normalised relative to the Droop quota, disregarding any integer part.
For example, if Party A obtained 45% and Party B obtained 25%, these would translate to approximately 0.35 and 0.75 "remainder" quotas respectively, with Party A of course already having won one seat. Normalised remainder quotas, instead of raw remainder votes, are employed to control for constituency electorate size and/or turnout effects.
The national count centre and TV networks would rank these remainders separately for each party from highest to lowest, including the constituency name, as results become available. As election night develops, these rankings become indicative of those parties which will win their available second seats, and where they will likely win them. As fresh results arrive, they will be "slotted" into the correct order, so the table rankings will continuously change, attracting interest from viewers and commentators.
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