from the county, the quotient is the number of votes divided by 5, and so on. The quotients for each county and party are divided by the total number of votes for all parties in that county and multiplied by the number of regular non-leveling seats allocated to that county. This leaves a table of fractions for each county and party. The first leveling seat goes to the county and party corresponding to the highest fraction in the table. The second leveling seat goes to county and party corresponding the next highest fraction in the table, and so on. Each time a leveling seat has been determined, the remaining fractions for the county that gave its leveling seat are taken out of consideration. Once a party has received all the leveling seats that it is entitled to, the remaining fractions for that party are also taken out of consideration. This process continues until all 19 leveling seats have been distributed. Peculiarities The method for assigning leveling seats usually results in the first leveling seats being given to candidates that did fairly well in the county. However, the last leveling seats may be awarded to candidates that received few votes in the county that they will represent. (In theory it is even possible for a party to receive a leveling seat in a county where they received no votes, or even in a county where they did not field any candidates, a scenario that the election law has no contingency for.) An illustration of this came in 2005 when Vera Lysklætt of the Liberal Party received the last leveling seat, in Finnmark, with 826 votes. Thus, the Liberal party gained 20% of Finnmark's seats with about 2% of the vote there. In the 2009 election, a programming fault in the software calculating the allocation prognosis for one county made their leveling seat go to another party. That changed the outcome in two other counties, and it took over a week and a recount until the distribution of leveling seats was finally decided. Mette Hanekamhaug got the final seat. Germany In February 2013, following a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court which demanded a reform of the electoral law for proportional representation, Germany added a provision to create national leveling seats as needed in a case of negative vote weight occurring in its mixed member proportional system, in addition to the traditional