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ORDINANCE VI OF 2000 BALOCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION ORDINANCE, 2000 ORDINANCE VI OF 2000 An Ordinance to provide for holding elections for the establishments of local Governments in the Province of Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 5th October, 2000] No. Legis.-1-122(Law)/2000, dated 5-10-2000.---The following Ordinance made by the Governor of Balochistan on 5th October, 2000, is hereby published for general information:--- 16. Joint candidacy and elections.--(1) A Zila Nazim and a Naib Zila Nazim or a Town Nazim and a Naib Town Nazim or a Tehsil Nazim and a Naib Tehsil Nazim or a Union Nazim and a Naib Union Nazim shall contest election in their respective wards as joint candidates. (2) The Nazim and the Naib Nazim of a district Government or a town Government or a Tehsil Government securing as joint candidates the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. (3) In case a Zila Nazim and a Naib Zila Nazim do not secure majority of the total votes of the members of the union councils in the district, there shall be held a fresh election, within one week of the first election, in which the joint candidates for such offices securing the highest and the second highest number of votes shall be contestants, and the joint candidates securing the highest number of votes in the fresh election shall be declared elected.