Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 54

54. (I) For the purpose of counting of votes, the Returning Officer shall disregard all fractions and ignore all preferences recorded for candidates already elected or excluded from the poll.

(2)A candidate shall be deemed to have been elected if at the end of any count or at the transfer of any parcel or sub-parcel of an excluded candidate, the value of ballot papers credited to a candidate is equal to or greater than the quota, and no further ballot paper shall be transferred to him.