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BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 CHAPTER V‑ELECTION AND RELATED MATTERS 17. Election of members of Local Councils.‑(1) Save as otherwise provided, election of members of all Union and District Councils, Municipal Corporation, Municipal Committees and Town Committees shall be held on the basis of adult franchise through secret ballot. (2) Below the Union Councils/ Municipal Committees there may be informal bodies at village level in the rural areas to be called village council or by any other appropriate name or all these bodies would be constituted on the basis of consensus of residents of the Village and Mohallah Committees in urban area and not through any formal elections. The procedure for obtaining such consensus shall be prescribed: (3) The Electoral unit may be multi‑member or single member and in any multi‑member electoral unit the candidates securing the highest number of votes shall be elected, and (4) Every voter within an electoral unit shall have only one vote irrespec tive of the number of the members to be elected from the electoral unit provided that at an election to a Muslim or a non‑Muslim seat in any electoral unit only such persons shall be entitled to vote as are enrolled on the electoral roll prepared on the principle of separate electorate for such area.