Committee on Senedd Electoral Reform

● Actively Monitored
Sessions analysed7
Commitments9
Positions17
Recommendations27

Latest Signals

16 Mar 2020Coterminous boundaries should not lock Senedd reform to Westminster(not stated in transcript header)Concern
[Speaker: Roger Awan-Scully] Obviously, we have in the Assembly thus far maintained coterminousity of Westminster and Assembly constituency boundaries, which of course they stopped doing in Scotland. If we do move to a system whereby there's equal representation—equal constituency size across the different nations of the UK as well as within it—then inevitably that reduces significantly the number of Welsh MPs. If we want to retain coterminousity, then we need to think about doing something fundamentally different for the Assembly electoral system.
16 Mar 2020Need to avoid highly fragmented 'hyper-proportional' systems(not stated in transcript header)Concern
16 Mar 2020Senedd enlargement requires electoral system change(not stated in transcript header)Concern
16 Mar 2020Current regional list system is poorly understood(not stated in transcript header)Concern
16 Mar 2020STV preferred over open lists on transferability(not stated in transcript header)Disagreement
16 Mar 2020Witnesses back proportionality, voter choice and diversity(not stated in transcript header)Position
16 Mar 2020Effective government need not mean single-party rule(not stated in transcript header)Position
16 Mar 2020Current FPTP yields major disproportionality and tactical voting(not stated in transcript header)Concern

Recent Sessions

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16 Mar 2020Senedd reform: STV, boundaries and proportionality
2 pos5 concern4 rec1 disag1 leg
03 Feb 2020Senedd job-sharing and diversity in politics
1 pos2 concern5 rec1 disag1 leg
27 Jan 2020Senedd reform: diversity, access and proxy voting
6 commit3 pos1 concern2 rec1 leg
20 Jan 2020Assembly size, scrutiny and diversity reform
1 commit5 pos5 concern7 rec1 leg
02 Dec 2019Senedd size, powers and diversity reform
2 commit2 pos2 concern3 rec2 leg

Recent Commitments

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Recent Recommendations

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Frequent Witnesses

Assembly Commission2× · 10 insights
(not stated in transcript header)1× · 13 insights
Welsh Government1× · 11 insights
National Assembly for Wales / Senedd Cymru1× · 7 insights
Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University1× · 7 insights
Committee on Senedd Electoral Reform1× · 5 insights