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The proposed rule for electing members to the Welsh Assembly gives each voter two votes, to cast at the Parliamentary constituency level, & at the bigger European constituency level. Half of the members are to be elected for the Assembly by a form of proportional representation, where party support is calculated by aggregating the two votes. The voters will be allowed to cast the second vote for a different party than the one for which they voted at the parliamentary level. This additional degree of freedom can frustrate the objective of obtaining better correspondence between party support & the number of seats. 12 Tables, 7 References. Adapted from the source document.

Examines proposed rule for electing National Assembly members which would give voters two votes--for parliamentary constituency and for European constituency--which could be cast for different political parties; Wales. Analyzes effect on the 1992 and 1997 British general elections if the proposed system had been used.

Altunbas & Chakravarty (2000), using simulated data, identify potential paradoxes inherent in the system of election to the Welsh assembly. This paper examines the data for the assembly elections held in 1999 to illustrate the occurrence of yet another paradoxical outcome, the election of the first ever First Minister due to a fall in support for his own party. 4 Tables, 5 References. Adapted from the source document.