4. 4. Plaid Cymru Debate: The Wales Bill and the Electoral System

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:16 pm on 29 June 2016.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 3:16, 29 June 2016

Well, I was going on to say that I think all electoral arrangements have their advantages and disadvantages. Now, for a long time, I’ve thought the disadvantages of first-past-the-post in an increasingly multi-party system, or in Wales where you have—or used to, anyway—a dominant party system, meant that we should look at other forms of election, but it is something I think we need to just carefully look at. Now, you can look at the Scottish experience and weigh up how people feel about living in large multi-member wards. Is that always appropriate for local government? I don’t know. I think that’s the sort of issue, the practical outcome, we need to examine and assess. So, ‘yes’ to us having the powers and ‘yes’ to us fully looking at the various options.