The
National Assembly for WalesThe National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
is composed of 60 members known as
AMs or
Assembly Members (in Welsh:
ACau or
Aelodau'r Cynulliad).
AMSs are elected in one of two ways:
- first past the post constituency AMs or;
- regional additional-member AMs.
Forty are
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as constituency AMs and twenty are elected as additional members, four from each of five regional groups of constituencies.
The
National Assembly for WalesThe National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
is composed of 60 members known as
AMs or
Assembly Members (in Welsh:
ACau or
Aelodau'r Cynulliad).
Methods of election
AMSs are elected in one of two ways:
- first past the post constituency AMs or;
- regional additional-member AMs.
Forty are
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as constituency AMs and twenty are elected as additional members, four from each of five regional groups of constituencies. This
additional member systemMixed member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is an 'additional member' voting system used to elect representatives to numerous legislatures around the world...
produces a form of
proportional representationProportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of electoral formula aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive...
for each region.
Elections
All AMs positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a four year cycle. If a
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arises at another time, due to
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or
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, then it may be filled in one of two ways, depending of whether the
vacancyIn crystallography, a vacancy is a type of point defect in a crystal.Crystals inherently possess imperfections, often referred to as 'crystalline defects'. A defect wherein an atom, such as silicon, is missing from one of the lattice sites is known as a 'vacancy' defect.Vacancies occur naturally in...
is for a first-past-the-post
constituencyA constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves...
AM or for an additional-member AM.
A constituency vacancy may be filled by a
by-electionA by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections...
. An additional-member vacancy may be filled by the next available candidate on the relevant party list.
See also
- Members of the 1st National Assembly for Wales
- Members of the 2nd National Assembly for Wales
- Members of the 3rd National Assembly for Wales
This is a list of Assembly Members or, in Welsh, Aelodau'r Cynulliad elected to the third National Assembly for Wales at the 2007 election...
- National Assembly for Wales constituencies and regions
- Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
Member of the Legislative Assembly is a representative elected by the voters to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.- About :...
- Member of the Scottish Parliament
Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...