The Council is responsible for determining the results and the allocation of seats for elections for the House of Representatives, Senate (since 1923) and the European Parliament.

As part of the Pacification of 1917, proportional representation was introduced for the elections for the House of Representatives.

This included active politicians of different parties, to provide legitimacy to the determination of the election results.

[4] In the period 1922-1923, the committee designed a regulation introducing proportional representation for the Senate.

The committee got the same responsibility of determining the results, which it first put in practice during the 1923 Senate election [nl].