Guidance for Returning Officers administering a Senedd election

You should follow these key steps to calculate the result of the poll.1

You must provisionally calculate the results of the poll and notify that provisional calculation (if present) to:2

• the election agent for a political party or in the absence of the agent, one of the candidates on the list
• an individual candidate or the candidate’s election agent

You must give these attendees reasonable opportunity to make a request for you to provisionally calculate the results again, but you may refuse to do so if the request is unreasonable.3