HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


'''House of Representatives''' is a name used for legislative bodies in many countries. Often, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a "senate". In other countries , the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members of a house of representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography.
"The House of Representatives" is the name of the lower house of the legislature in the following countries:
Antigua and Barbuda House of Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda
Australia Australian House of Representatives
Belarus House of Representatives of Belarus
Belize House of Representatives of Belize
Bosnia and Herzegovina House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Colombia House of Representatives of Colombia
Fiji House of Representatives (Fiji)
Indonesia Indonesian House of Representatives
Jamaica House of Representatives of Jamaica
Japan House of Representatives of Japan
Liberia House of Representatives of Liberia
Malaysia House of Representatives of Malaysia
Nepal House of Representatives of Nepal
Nigeria House of Representatives of Nigeria
Philippines House of Representatives of the Philippines
Puerto Rico House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
Somaliland House of Representatives of Somaliland
Thailand House of Representatives of Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
United States United States House of Representatives
Yemen House of Representatives of Yemen

In the following countries it is the sole chamber in a unicameral system:
Cyprus House of Representatives of Cyprus
Malta House of Representatives of Malta
New Zealand New Zealand House of Representatives

In Indonesia, the ''Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat'' (DPR) is generally known in English as the "House of Representatives", as is the ''Dewan Rakyat'' of the Parliament of Malaysia. ''House of Representatives'' is the title of most, but not all, of the lower houses of United States state legislatures, with the exceptions usually called "State Assembly" or more rarely, "House of Delegates." Under apartheid, the House of Representatives was the house for South Africa's mixed race 'Coloured' community, in the Tricameral Parliament of 1984 to 1994.
In the Austrian part Cisleithania of Austria-Hungary, the lower house the ''Abgeordnetenhaus'' is generally known in English as "House of Representatives".

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List of national legislatures

Chamber of Deputies

National Assembly

House of Commons

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