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.

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in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible government, the House of Assembly superseded the (usually unelected) Legislative Council as the colonial legislature, often becoming the lower house.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

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