Methods of Election
AMs are elected in one of two ways:
- First past the post constituency AMs or;
- Regional additional-member AMs
Forty are elected as constituency AMs and twenty are elected as additional members, four from each of five regional groups of constituencies. This additional member system produces a form of proportional representation for each region.
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