C1Part 1F1Senedd Cymru

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
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Words in Pt. 1 heading substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

General elections

8I1Calculation of electoral region figures

1

This section and section 9 are about the return of F2Senedd regional members for an electoral region at a general election.

2

The person who is to be returned as the F2Senedd constituency member for each F2Senedd constituency in the F2Senedd electoral region is to be determined before it is determined who are to be returned as the F2Senedd regional members for the F2Senedd electoral region.

3

For each registered political party by which a list of candidates has been submitted for the F2Senedd electoral region—

a

there is to be added together the number of electoral region votes given for the party in the F2Senedd constituencies included in the F2Senedd electoral region, and

b

the number arrived at under paragraph (a) is then to be divided by the aggregate of one and the number of candidates of the party returned as F2Senedd constituency members for any of those F2Senedd constituencies.

4

For each individual candidate to be F3a Senedd regional member for the F2Senedd electoral region there is to be added together the number of electoral region votes given for the candidate in the F2Senedd constituencies included in the F2Senedd electoral region.

5

The number arrived at—

a

in the case of a registered political party, under subsection (3)(b), or

b

in the case of an individual candidate, under subsection (4),

is referred to in this Act as the electoral region figure for that party or individual candidate.