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Distribution of seats by constituency
Party affiliation of the five Assembly members returned by each constituency. The first column indicates the party of the Member of the House of Commons (MP) returned by the corresponding parliamentary constituency in the 2019 United Kingdom general election under the first-past-the-post voting method.

Candidates
Nominations opened on 29 March 2022 for the assembly election and closed on 8 April 2022.

A total of 239 candidates contested the 90 available seats in the Assembly, an increase from 228 in 2016. Eighty-seven women ran as candidates in the election, which is the highest number in history. The seats were spread over 18 constituencies, with each constituency having five seats. The election was conducted using the single transferable vote system.

The table below lists all of the nominated candidates.
 * indicates an incumbent MLA


 * indicates the candidate is the incumbent MLA for a different constituency

^ indicates a former MLA who was not a member at the dissolution of the 2016–17 Assembly

Leaders of parties represented in the assembly at dissolution are shown in bold text

Elected candidates are marked with an (E)