Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)

Valid from 01/12/1998

Part I U.K. The National Assembly for Wales

Ordinary elections U.K.

6 Calculation of electoral region figures. U.K.

(1) For each registered political party by which a list of candidates has been submitted for the Assembly electoral region—

(a) there shall be added together the number of electoral region votes given for the party in the Assembly constituencies included in the Assembly electoral region, and

(b) the number arrived at under paragraph (a) shall then be divided by the aggregate of one and the number of candidates of the party returned as Assembly members for any of those Assembly constituencies.

(2) For each individual candidate to be an Assembly member for the Assembly electoral region there shall be added together the number of electoral region votes given for him in the Assembly constituencies included in the Assembly electoral region.

(3) The number arrived at—

(a) in the case of a registered political party, under subsection (1)(b), or

(b) in the case of an individual candidate, under subsection (2),

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