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Unicameralism from uni one Latin camera chamber is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legisl

Unicameralism

Unicameralism
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Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, making up nearly 60% of all national legislatures and an even greater share of subnational legislatures.

Sometimes, as in New Zealand and Denmark, unicameralism comes about through the abolition of one of two bicameral chambers, or, as in Sweden, through the merger of the two chambers into a single one, while in others a second chamber has never existed from the beginning.

Rationale for unicameralism and criticism

The principal advantage of a unicameral system is more efficient lawmaking, as the legislative process is simpler and there is no possibility of deadlock between two chambers. Proponents of unicameralism have also argued that it reduces costs, even if the number of legislators stays the same, since there are fewer institutions to maintain and support financially. More popular among modern-day democratic countries, unicameral, proportional legislatures are widely seen as both more democratic and effective.

Proponents of bicameral legislatures say that having two legislative chambers offers an additional restraint on the majority, though critics note that there are other ways to restrain majorities, such as through non-partisan courts and a robust constitution.

List of unicameral legislatures

image
  Countries with a bicameral legislature.
  Countries with a unicameral legislature.
  Countries with a unicameral legislature and an advisory body.
  Countries with no legislature.

Approximately half of the world's sovereign states are currently unicameral. The People's Republic of China is somewhat in-between, with a legislature and a formal advisory body. China has a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference which meets alongside the National People's Congress, in many respects an advisory "upper house".

Many subnational entities have unicameral legislatures. These include the state of Nebraska and territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands in the United States, the Chinese special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, the Australian state of Queensland as well as the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, a majority of the provinces of Argentina, all of the provinces and territories in Canada, all of the regions of Italy, all of the provinces of Nepal. all of the Spanish autonomous communities, both the autonomous regions of Portugal, most of the states and union territories of India, and all of the states of Brazil and Germany. In the United Kingdom, the devolved Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Senedd, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the London Assembly are also unicameral.

National (UN member states and observers)

Federal

Country Unicameral body Seats Notes
image Germany Bundestag 736 The Bundestag is technically the unicameral parliament of Germany, since the Bundesrat is not defined as a chamber of the legislature, but a completely separate legislative institution according to the Basic Law (German constitution).
image Iraq Council of Representatives 329 provision exists for the founding of a "Council of Union", but no move to this effect has been initiated by the existing Council
image Micronesia Congress 14
image Saint Kitts and Nevis National Assembly 15
image United Arab Emirates Federal National Council 40
image Venezuela National Assembly 277

Unitary

Country Unicameral body Seats Notes
image Afghanistan Leadership Council 30 Purely advisory, powers reside in the emir
image Albania Kuvendi 140
image Andorra General Council of Andorra 28
image Angola National Assembly 220
image Armenia National Assembly 107
image Azerbaijan National Assembly 125
image Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad 350
image Benin National Assembly 109
image Botswana National Assembly 65
image Brunei Legislative Council 37 Purely advisory, powers reside in the King
image Bulgaria National Assembly 240
image Burkina Faso National Assembly 127
image Cape Verde National Assembly 72
image Central African Republic National Assembly 140
image Chad National Assembly 188
image China National People's Congress 2977
image Costa Rica Legislative Assembly 57
image Croatia Sabor 151
image Cuba National Assembly of People's Power 470
image Cyprus House of Representatives 56
image Denmark Folketing 179
image Djibouti National Assembly 65
image Dominica House of Assembly 32
image East Timor National Parliament 65
image Ecuador National Assembly 137
image El Salvador Legislative Assembly 60
image Eritrea National Assembly 150
image Estonia Riigikogu 101
image Fiji Parliament 55
image Finland Parliament 200
image Gambia National Assembly 58
image Georgia Parliament 150
image Ghana Parliament 275
image Greece Parliament 300
image Guatemala Congress 160
image Guinea National Assembly 81
image Guinea-Bissau National People's Assembly 102
image Guyana National Assembly 65
image Honduras National Congress 128
image Hungary National Assembly 199
image Iceland Althing 63
image Iran Islamic Consultative Assembly 290
image Israel Knesset 120
image Kiribati House of Assembly 45
image North Korea Supreme People's Assembly 687
image South Korea National Assembly 300
image Kuwait National Assembly 65
image Kyrgyzstan Supreme Council 90
image Laos National Assembly 164
image Latvia Saeima 100
image Lebanon Parliament 128
image Libya House of Representatives 200
image Liechtenstein Landtag 25
image Lithuania Seimas 141
image Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies 60
image Malawi National Assembly 193
image Maldives Majlis 93
image Mali National Assembly 147
image Malta Parliament 79
image Marshall Islands Legislature 33
image Mauritania Parliament 176
image Mauritius National Assembly 70
image Moldova Parliament 101
image Monaco National Council 24
image Mongolia State Great Khural 126
image Montenegro Parliament 81
image Mozambique Assembly of the Republic 250
image Nauru Parliament 19
image New Zealand Parliament 120
image Nicaragua National Assembly 90
image Niger National Assembly 171
image North Macedonia Assembly 120
image Norway Storting 169
image State of Palestine Legislative Council 132
image Panama National Assembly 71
image Papua New Guinea National Parliament 118
image Peru Congress of the Republic 130 The composition of the Congress of Peru in 2026, will return to being a bicameral legislature with a 60-seat Senate and 130-seat Chamber of Deputies.
image Portugal Assembly of the Republic 230
image Qatar Consultative Assembly 45
image Saint Vincent and the Grenadines House of Assembly 21
image Samoa Legislative Assembly 53
image Saudi Arabia Consultative Assembly 150 Purely advisory, powers reside in the King
image San Marino Grand and General Council 60
image São Tomé and Príncipe National Assembly 55
image Senegal National Assembly 165
image Serbia National Assembly 250
image Seychelles National Assembly 35
image Sierra Leone Parliament 149
image Singapore Parliament 104
image Slovakia National Council 150
image Solomon Islands National Parliament 50
image Sri Lanka Parliament 225
image Suriname National Assembly 51
image Sweden Riksdag 349
image Syria Parliament 250
image Tanzania National Assembly 393
image Togo National Assembly 113
image Tonga Legislative Assembly 26
image Tunisia National Assembly 161
image Turkey Grand National Assembly 600
image Turkmenistan Assembly 125
image Tuvalu Parliament 16
image Uganda Parliament 557
image Ukraine Verkhovna Rada 450
image Vanuatu Parliament 52
image Vatican City Pontifical Commission 8 All powers delegated by the sovereign
image Vietnam National Assembly 500
image Zambia National Assembly 167

Territorial

Country Unicameral body Seats Notes
image Åland Islands Parliament 30
image Anguilla House of Assembly 13
image Aruba Parliament 21
image Azores Legislative Assembly 57
image British Virgin Islands House of Assembly 30
image Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly 21
image Cook Islands Parliament 24
image Curaçao Parliament 21
image Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly 11
image Faroe Islands Løgting 33
image French Polynesia Assembly 57
image Gibraltar Parliament 17
image Greenland Inatsisartut 31
image Guam Legislature 15 Unincorporated territory of the United States
image Guernsey States 40
image Hong Kong Legislative Council 90
image Jersey States Assembly 54
image Madeira Legislative Assembly 47
image Macao Legislative Assembly 33
image Montserrat Legislative Assembly 11
image New Caledonia Congress 54
image Niue Assembly 20
image Pitcairn Islands Island Council 10
image Saint Barthélemy Territorial Council 19
image Saint Helena Legislative Council 15
image Saint Martin Collectivity of Saint Martin 23
image Saint Pierre and Miquelon Territorial Council 19
image Sint Maarten Parliament 15
image Tobago House of Assembly 15
image Tokelau General Fono 20
image Turks and Caicos Islands House of Assembly 21
image U.S. Virgin Islands Legislature 15
image Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly 20

State parliaments with limited recognition

Country Unicameral body Seats Notes
image Abkhazia People's Assembly 35
image Kosovo Assembly 120
image Northern Cyprus Assembly of the Republic 50
image Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic National Council 51
image South Ossetia Parliament 34
image Taiwan Legislative Yuan 113 The original constitution is partially superseded by the additional articles only on Taiwan which replaced the tricameral parliament into a unicameral one. A sunset clause in the additional articles will terminate them in the event of a hypothetical resumption of ROC rule in Mainland China.
image Transnistria Supreme Council 33

Subnational

Federations

image
Provincial legislatures in Argentina
  • All legislatures and legislative councils of the regions and communities of Belgium
  • All legislative assemblies in all states of Brazil
  • All legislative assemblies of the provinces and territories of Canada
  • All Landtage of the states of Germany
  • All legislative assemblies of the states of Malaysia
  • All legislatures in all states of Mexico
  • All legislatures of the provinces in Nepal
  • All legislatures of the provinces and territories in Pakistan
  • The legislature of the state of Nebraska, and council of the District of Columbia in the United States
  • Parliament of Queensland and the legislative assemblies of the territories of Australia (but not the other states)
  • Provincial legislatures of the provinces of South Africa
  • Narodna skupština of Republika Srpska
  • 15 of the 23 provinces of Argentina – Chaco, Chubut, Córdoba, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Juan, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán, and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.
  • 22 of the 28 states and union territories of India – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal; and 3 of the union territories – Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry.

Devolved governments

  • Regional councils of France
  • Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament
  • Regional councils of Italy
  • Bangsamoro Parliament in Philippines
  • Parliaments (variously named Parlamento, Cortes, Junta) of the Autonomous communities of Spain
  • City and County Councils of the administrative divisions of Taiwan
  • Councils of the oblasts of Ukraine
  • Countries of the United Kingdom:
    • Northern Ireland Assembly
    • Scottish Parliament
    • Welsh Senedd

Others

  • (Local People's Congresses) of all levels of provinces, regions, and municipalities of the People's Republic of China
  • National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization

List of historical unicameral legislatures

National

  • The First Protectorate Parliament and Second Protectorate Parliament of the Kingdom of England, regulated by the Instrument of Government (dissolved)
  • Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland until 1707 (dissolved)
  • Congress of the Confederation was unicameral before being replaced in 1789 by the current, bicameral United States Congress.
  • Provisional Congress of the Confederate States was unicameral before being replaced by the bicameral Confederate States Congress in 1862.
  • Congress of Deputies of Second Spanish Republic was unicameral between 1931 and 1936. Dissolved at the end of Spanish Civil War
  • The Parliament of Uzbekistan was unicameral before being replaced in 2005 by the current, bicameral Oliy Majlis.
  • National Assembly of Cameroon was unicameral before being replaced in 2013 by the current, bicameral Parliament of Cameroon.
  • Chamber of People's Representative of Equatorial Guinea was unicameral before being replaced in 2013 by the current, bicameral Parliament of Equatorial Guinea.
  • National Assembly of Kenya was the country's unicameral legislature before becoming the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Kenya in 2013.
  • National Assembly of Ivory Coast was the country's unicameral legislature before becoming the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Ivory Coast in 2016.
  • Central National Committee and the Provisional People's Representative Council of Indonesia was the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Indonesia during the War of Independence and the Liberal democracy era.

Subnational

  • General Assembly of Georgia until 1789
  • General Assembly of Pennsylvania until 1790
  • General Assembly of Vermont until 1836

Other

  • Assembly of Representatives of Yishuv community in Mandatory Palestine from 1920 to 1949

Unicameralism in the Philippines

Though the current Congress of the Philippines is bicameral, the country experienced unicameralism in 1898 and 1899 (during the First Philippine Republic), from 1935 to 1941 (the Commonwealth era) and from 1943 to 1944 (during the Japanese occupation). Under the 1973 Constitution, the legislative body was called Batasang Pambansa, which functioned also a unicameral legislature within a parliamentary system (1973–1981) and a semi-presidential system (1981–1986) form of government.

The ongoing process of amending or revising the current Constitution and form of government is popularly known as Charter Change. A shift to a unicameral parliament was included in the proposals of the constitutional commission created by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Unlike in the United States, senators in the Senate of the Philippines are elected not per district and state but nationally; the Philippines is a unitary state. The Philippine government's decision-making process, relative to the United States, is more rigid, highly centralised, much slower and susceptible to political gridlock. As a result, the trend for unicameralism as well as other political system reforms are more contentious in the Philippines.

While Congress is bicameral, all local legislatures are unicameral: the Bangsamoro Parliament, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Boards), Sangguniang Panlungsod (City Councils), Sangguniang Bayan (Municipal Councils), Sangguniang Barangay (Barangay Councils), and the Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Councils).

Unicameralism in the United States

The Nebraska Legislature (also called the Unicameral) is the supreme legislative body of the state of Nebraska and the only unicameral state legislature in the United States. Its members are called "senators", as it was originally the upper house of a bicameral legislature before the Nebraska House of Representatives dissolved in 1937. The legislature is also notable for being nonpartisan and officially recognizes no party affiliation, making Nebraska unique among US states. With 49 members, it is also the smallest legislature of any US state.

A 2018 study found that efforts to adopt unicameralism in Ohio and Missouri failed due to rural opposition. There was a fear in rural communities that unicameralism would diminish their influence in state government.

Local government legislatures of counties, cities, or other political subdivisions within states are usually unicameral and have limited lawmaking powers compared to their state and federal counterparts.

Some of the 13 colonies which became independent, such as (Pennsylvania), (New Jersey) and (New Hampshire) had initially introduced strong unicameral legislature and (relatively) less powerful governors with no veto power. Pennsylvania's constitution lasted only 14 years. In 1790, conservatives gained power in the state legislature, called a new constitutional convention, and rewrote the constitution. The new constitution substantially reduced universal male suffrage, gave the governor veto power and patronage appointment authority, and added an upper house with substantial wealth qualifications to the unicameral legislature. Thomas Paine called it a constitution unworthy of America.[citation needed]

In 1944, Missouri held a vote on changing the General Assembly to a unicameral one, which was narrowly rejected by the voters 52.42-47.58. Only the city of St. Louis and the St. Louis County voted in favor, whilst Jackson County (containing the bulk of Kansas City) narrowly voted against, and all other counties voted against the change to unicameralism.

In 1970, North Dakota voters voted to call a constitutional convention. In 1972, a change to a unicameral legislature was approved by 69.36-30.64, however, since the voters rejected the new constitution at the same referendum, it never took effect.

In 1999, Governor Jesse Ventura proposed converting the Minnesota Legislature into a single chamber. Although debated, the idea was never adopted.

The US territory of Puerto Rico held a non-binding referendum in 2005. Voters approved changing its Legislative Assembly to a unicameral body by 456,267 votes in favor (83.7%) versus 88,720 against (16.3%). If both the territory's House of Representatives and Senate had approved by a 2⁄3 vote the specific amendments to the Puerto Rico Constitution that are required for the change to a unicameral legislature, another referendum would have been held in the territory to approve such amendments. If those constitutional changes had been approved, Puerto Rico could have switched to a unicameral legislature as early as 2015.

On June 9, 2009, the Maine House of Representatives voted to form a unicameral legislature, but the measure did not pass the Senate.

Because of legislative gridlock in 2009, former Congressman Rick Lazio, a prospective candidate for governor, has proposed that New York adopt unicameralism.

The United States as a whole was subject to a unicameral Congress during the years 1781–1788, when the Articles of Confederation were in effect. The Confederate States of America, pursuant to its Provisional Constitution, in effect from February 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862, was governed by a unicameral Congress.

See also

  • Bicameralism
  • Tricameralism

References

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  6. Classifications of Germany as a country with a bicameral legislature can be controversial.
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