http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/38/section/4/2000-03-21Government of Wales Act 1998An Act to establish and make provision about the National Assembly for Wales and the offices of Auditor General for Wales and Welsh Administration Ombudsman; to reform certain Welsh public bodies and abolish certain other Welsh public bodies; and for connected purposes.1998-07-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-04-272000-03-21 Government of Wales Act 1998Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)Sch. 1 para. 5A 5BPolitical Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000Sch. 3 para. 10(5) Part I41Each person entitled to vote at an ordinary election in an Assembly constituency shall have two votes.2One (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.3The other (referred to in this Act as an electoral region vote) is to be given for—aa 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, orban individual who is a candidate to be an Assembly member for that Assembly electoral region.4The Assembly member for the Assembly constituency shall be returned under the simple majority system.5The Assembly members for the Assembly electoral region shall be returned under the additional member system of proportional representation in accordance with sections 5 to 7.6The 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.7At an ordinary election a person may not be a candidate to be the Assembly member for more than one Assembly constituency.8In this Act “registered political party” means a party registered under the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998.Words substituted (3.12.1998) by 1998 c. 48, ss. 23, 25(3), Sch. 3 para. 5