House of Assembly

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.

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Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible government, the House of Assembly superseded the (usually unelected) Legislative Council as the colonial legislature, often becoming the lower house.

List of Houses of Assembly

National
Country Body Type Established Notes
 AnguillaHouse of AssemblyUnicameral
 BahamasHouse of AssemblyLower House1729
 BarbadosHouse of AssemblyLower House1639
 BermudaHouse of AssemblyLower House1620Bicameral since 1968
 British Virgin IslandsHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1773
 DominicaHouse of AssemblyUnicameral
 KiribatiHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1979
 Saint LuciaHouse of AssemblyLower House
 Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesHouse of AssemblyUnicameral
 EswatiniHouse of AssemblyLower House
 Turks and CaicosHouse of AssemblyUnicameral2006

Sub-national
Country Region Body Type Established Notes
 AustraliaSouth AustraliaHouse of AssemblyLower House1857
 AustraliaTasmaniaHouse of AssemblyLower House1857
 CanadaNova ScotiaHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1758Lower House until 1928
 CanadaNewfoundland and LabradorHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1832 Lower House until 1934
 NigeriaKano StateHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1979
 NigeriaLagos StateHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1979
 NigeriaOyo StateHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1976
 NigeriaOndo StateHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1976
 NigeriaRivers StateHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1979
 Trinidad and TobagoTobagoHouse of AssemblyUnicameral1980

National
Country Body Type Established Disestablished Notes
Cape ColonyHouse of AssemblyLower House18531910
 GibraltarHouse of AssemblyUnicameral19692006
 JamaicaHouse of AssemblyUnicameral16641865
 Papua New GuineaHouse of AssemblyUnicameral19641975
 South AfricaHouse of AssemblyLower House19101994Lower House until 1981, unicameral 1981–84, White house in the Tricameral Parliament 1984–94
 ZimbabweHouse of AssemblyLower House19802013Succeeded 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
 AustraliaAustralian Capital TerritoryHouse of AssemblyUnicameral19791986

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