Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 59

59. (1) If at any time it becomes necessary to exclude a candidate and two or more candidates have the same value of votes and are the lowest on the poll regard shall be had to the original votes of each candidates and the candidate for whom fewest original votes are recorded shall be excluded and if the value of their original votes are equal the candidate with the smallest value at the earlier count at which these candidates had unequal values shall be excluded.

(2)If two or more candidates are lowest on the poll and each has the same value of votes at all counts, the Returning Officer shall decide by lot which candidate shall be excluded. 101 {59-A. During the course of counting the candidate excluded first shall be placed at the last number among the candidates from that province 102[and the ICT]. In the same manner, the next candidate excluded from that province 103[and the ICT] shall be placed at the number above the last and so on}.