5. If the independent candidate who would have been entitled to recommend the deputy returning officer according to the criteria in section 2 is not a candidate or if the party whose candidate would have been entitled to make such a recommendation does not put up a candidate, and if the party whose candidate would have been entitled to recommend the poll clerk under this section does not put up a candidate, the deputy returning officer and the poll clerk shall be recommended by the candidates of the authorized parties that came next in order after reapportionment.