Textual Amendments
F1Words 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)
C1Pt. 1 modified (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), ss. 13(5), 19(1)
(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.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(19) (with Sch. 1 para. 2(11)-(14))
F3Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(18) (with Sch. 1 para. 2(11)-(14))
Commencement Information
I1Ss. 1-94, 97-106 in force immediately after "the 2007 election" by s. 161(1) (subject to s. 161(4)(5))