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House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level.
Historically, in
Legislative Council as the colonial
legislature, often becoming the lower house.
List of Houses of Assembly
Extant
National
Country | Body | Type | Established | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anguilla | House of Assembly |
Unicameral | ||
Bahamas | House of Assembly |
Lower House | 1729 | |
Barbados | House of Assembly | Lower House | 1639 | |
Bermuda | House of Assembly | Lower House | 1620 | Bicameral since 1968 |
British Virgin Islands | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1773 | |
Dominica | House of Assembly | Unicameral | ||
Kiribati | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1979 | |
Saint Lucia | House of Assembly | Lower House | ||
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | House of Assembly | Unicameral | ||
Eswatini | House of Assembly | Lower House | ||
Turks and Caicos | House of Assembly |
Unicameral | 2006 |
Sub-national
Country | Region | Body | Type | Established | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | South Australia | House of Assembly | Lower House | 1857 | |
Australia | Tasmania | House of Assembly | Lower House | 1857 | |
Canada | Nova Scotia | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1758 | Lower House until 1928 |
Canada | Newfoundland and Labrador | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1832 | Lower House until 1934 |
Nigeria | Kano State | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1979 | |
Nigeria | Lagos State | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1979 | |
Nigeria | Oyo State | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1976 | |
Nigeria | Ondo State | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1976 | |
Nigeria | Rivers State | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1979 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | Tobago | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1980 |
Defunct
National
Country | Body | Type | Established | Disestablished | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cape Colony | House of Assembly | Lower House | 1853 | 1910 | |
Gibraltar | House of Assembly |
Unicameral | 1969 | 2006 | |
Jamaica | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1664 | 1865 | |
Papua New Guinea | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1964 | 1975 | |
South Africa | House of Assembly |
Lower House | 1910 | 1994 | Lower House until 1981, unicameral 1981–84, White house in the Tricameral Parliament 1984–94 |
Zimbabwe | House of Assembly |
Lower House | 1980 | 2013 | Succeeded the House of Assembly, the lower house of the Rhodesian Parliament, which existed between 1970 and 1979 |
Sub-national
Country | Region | Body | Type | Established | Disestablished | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | Australian Capital Territory | House of Assembly | Unicameral | 1979 | 1986 |
See also
- Legislative Assembly
- Legislative Council
- Parliament