We developed a novel measurement method of the Donnan potential difference at a charged membrane/salt solution interface. The method can measure the potential under the condition that the membrane charge density is much lower than the KCl concentration of the salt bridge. This method is very useful for obtaining the effective charge density of each layer of a bipolar membrane. The present experiments in a system of a negatively charged poly(vinyl alcohol) membrane and a single salt solution of KCI, NaCl, LiCl, CaCl2 and LaC3 revealed that the membrane effective charged density has the same value for all the ions. The experiments in mixed KCl and CaCl2 solution revealed that the potential in the system is governed mainly by the concentration of the counterion having the highest valence in the system.