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  Wales Bill - Clause 2 - Allow Someone to Stand As Both Constituency and Regional Candidate in Welsh Assembly Election
  
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  @ MP voted aye to allow someone to stand as both a constituency and a regional candidate in an Welsh Assembly Election. 
  @ MP voted no against allowing someone to stand as both a constituency and a regional candidate in an Welsh Assembly Election. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to allow someone to stand as both a constituency and a regional candidate in an Welsh Assembly Election. 
  
  MPs were considering the Wales Bill[1]. The motion passed in this vote was:
  
  :That clause 2 stand part of the Bill.
  
  The explanatory notes to the Bill[2] explains further what the operative subclause of clause 2[3] does:
  
  Subsection (2) of clause 2 amends [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/contents section 7 of GOWA 2006] to remove the restriction on standing as both a constituency and a regional candidate in an Assembly election. But a person cannot stand as a candidate in a constituency outside of the region in which they are standing. It also provides that a candidate on a regional party list cannot stand in a constituency as a candidate for another party. The clause also makes provision for individual candidates standing on a regional list: they can stand neither as party candidates in a constituency in the region nor as a candidate for a constituency outside that region.
  
  The explanatory notes detail situation existing in Wales at the time of the vote:
  
  :Every voter in Wales has two votes: one for their preferred constituency candidate and one for a regional candidate. Before [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/contents GOWA 2006] came into force, candidates could stand for election as both a constituency member and a regional member. [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/7 Section 7 of GOWA] 2006 prohibited this as it was thought that a member who had lost a constituency vote but was elected as a regional member could cause dissatisfaction with the political process because they would have been explicitly rejected by the electorate as a constituency member. However, this concern has been refuted in studies by the Electoral Commission and others which have demonstrated that the prohibition has a disproportionate impact on smaller parties who have a smaller pool of potential candidates to draw upon.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/wales.html Parliament's webpage on the Wales Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0186/en/14186en.htm Explanatory notes to the Wales Bill]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0186/cbill_2013-20140186_en_2.htm#pt1-pb1-l1g2 Clause 2 of the Wales Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
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