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(1)Each person entitled to vote at an ordinary election in an Assembly constituency shall have two votes.
(2)One (referred to in this Act as a constituency vote) is to be given for a candidate to be the Assembly member for the Assembly constituency.
(3)The other (referred to in this Act as an electoral region vote) is to be given for—
(a)a registered political party which has submitted a list of candidates to be Assembly members for the Assembly electoral region in which the Assembly constituency is included, or
(b)an individual who is a candidate to be an Assembly member for that Assembly electoral region.
(4)The Assembly member for the Assembly constituency shall be returned under the simple majority system.
(5)The Assembly members for the Assembly electoral region shall be returned under the additional member system of proportional representation in accordance with sections 5 to 7.
(6)The person who is to be returned as the Assembly member for each Assembly constituency in the Assembly electoral region must be determined before it is determined who are to be returned as the Assembly members for that Assembly electoral region.
(7)At an ordinary election a person may not be a candidate to be the Assembly member for more than one Assembly constituency.
(8)In this Act “registered political party” means [F1a party registered under Part II of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000].
Textual Amendments
F1S. 4(8): words in definition of "registered political party" substituted (16.2.2001) by 2000 c. 41, ss. 158(1), 163(2), Sch. 21 para. 12(2) (with s. 156(6)); S.I. 2001/222, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I (subject to Sch. 1 Pt. II)
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