The National Assembly for Wales (Representation of the People) Order 2007

Declaration of results at a regional election

64.—(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 Clerk (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 paragraph (3); 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 sub-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 uncontested regional election the statement of persons nominated, in addition to showing the registered political parties and other persons standing nominated, 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 returned,

and the regional returning officer shall forthwith return the names of those persons to the Clerk (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 paragraph (3).

(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(c) and (2) the regional returning officer shall return those names required to be returned, by—

(a) completing a certificate in form CS set out in English and Welsh in Schedule 10, (declaring the candidate to be returned); and

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