Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 56

56. If at the end of any count, no candidate has a surplus and one or more seats remain unfilled, the Returning Officer shall exclude from the count the candidate credited with the lowest value; shall sort the unexhausted papers into sub-parcels according to the next available preferences recorded thereon and shall transfer each sub-parcel to the contesting candidates for whom the next preference is recorded.