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The National Assembly for Wales election 2016 will be the next election for the National Assembly for Wales. The poll will be held on Thursday, 5 May 2016 and will elect all the members of the assembly (AMs). It will be the fifth election for the National Assembly (previous elections were held in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011), and the third election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (though several rules have now been changed by the Wales Act 2014). The previous election resulted in gains for the then incumbent Welsh Labour Party, which gained four seats compared to the previous election and currently holds 30 seats, exactly half of the Assembly, one short of an overall majority. The party also secured a swing in its favour of over 10 percentage points. The Welsh Conservatives are currently the largest opposition party with 14 seats, a net gain of two from 2007, but former party leader Nick Bourne lost his seat. The junior party in the government coalition, the nationalist Plaid Cymru, suffered a drop in its vote and lost 4 seats. The Welsh Liberal Democrats lost significantly in the popular vote and returned five AMs, a loss of one.) British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens living in Wales aged 18 or over on election day will be entitled to vote. The election will be held on the same day as elections for the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly and a number of local elections in England. This election and elections to the other devolved chambers have been delayed by a year from 2015 to 2016. This is a result of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, which ensured that the United Kingdom general election took place on 7 May 2015.〔(Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 ) section 5〕 General elections to the Welsh Assembly have now been permanently moved to a five-year cycle under the Wales Act 2014. ==Electoral method== In general elections for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter has two votes in a mixed member system. The first vote is for a candidate to become the Assembly Member for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote is for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation. The overall result is approximately proportional. The previous restriction on the ability to stand in both a constituency and a regional list was lifted by the Wales Act 2014. The Act also removes the ability to dual mandate with the House of Commons — an Assembly Member will no longer allowed also to be an MP. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Assembly for Wales election, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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