The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 1999

Declaration of results at a regional election

59.—(1) After the regional returning officer has ascertained the results of the poll, he shall forthwith—

(a) announce the individual candidates or the registered political parties to whom seats have been allocated (together with the names of the party list candidates who are to fill such seats),

(b) declare those individual or party list candidates to have been elected,

(c) return the names of those persons to the Assembly (and, in respect of any party list candidate, the name of the registered political party for which he was such a candidate) in accordance with sub-paragraph (4), and

(d) give public notice—

(i) of the name of any individual candidate elected,

(ii) of the name of any party list candidate elected (and the name of the registered political party for which he was such a candidate),

(iii) of the total number of votes given for each individual candidate or registered political party together with the number of rejected ballot papers under each head shown in the statement of rejected ballot papers, and

(iv) in respect of the number of votes referred to in paragraph (iii), a breakdown of the number of votes given for each such candidate or party in each Assembly constituency in the Assembly electoral region.

(2) At an ordinary election sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (c) and (d)(i) and (ii) shall also apply at an uncontested regional election after completion of the requirements imposed by paragraph 21(4).

(3) At an uncontested regional election other than at an ordinary election, the statement of persons nominated, in addition to showing the persons standing nominated and the registered political parties which have submitted a party list shall also—

(a) set out the individual candidates or the registered political parties to whom seats have been allocated (together with the names of the party list candidates who are to fill such seats), and

(b) declare those individual or party list candidates to have been elected,

and the regional returning officer shall forthwith return the names of those persons to the Assembly (and, in respect of any party list candidate, the name of the registered political party for which he was such a candidate) in accordance with sub-paragraph (4).

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (3) the regional returning officer shall return those names required to be returned, by—

(a) completing a certificate in the form set out in English and Welsh in the Appendix, and

(b) delivering it, or causing it to be delivered, to the Assembly,

and a candidate shall be treated as having been returned as an Assembly member when his name is returned in accordance with this sub-paragraph.

(5) But in relation to the first ordinary election of the Assembly the references in sub-paragraphs (1)(c), (3) and (4)(b) to the Assembly shall be construed as references to the Secretary of State.