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2 unusual facts about House of Assembly


Peter Beckford

He took an active part in island politics, representing St. Catherine in the Assembly in 1675, and was later called to the Council where he was appointed President.

Virginia Park, St. John's

The neighbourhood is represented by the Virginia Waters and Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi districts in the provincial House of Assembly, and is part of the St. John's East district in the Canadian House of Commons.


Albert Ogilvie

In 1919 he was elected to the House of Assembly for Division of Franklin, and retained the seat at each succeeding election.

Arthur Foulkes

Foulkes was elected to the House of Assembly in 1967 and served in the government of Lynden Pindling as Minister of Communications and Minister of Tourism.

Augustus F. Goodridge

Instead, Governor Sir Arthur Murray refused Whiteway's requested and instead appointed Goodridge as the new Premier despite the fact that Goodridge's Tories were outnumbered by Liberals in the House of Assembly.

B. J. Vorster

In 1953, Vorster was elected to the House of Assembly representing the seat of Nigel in the Transvaal.

Edward Roworth

This work was completed in 1911 whereupon it was displayed in Buckingham Palace, later being installed in the House of Assembly in Cape Town.

Geoffrey Johnstone

He was elected to the House of Assembly for the Eastern District of New Providence in November 1962 and served that constituency until January 1967 when he was returned as the Member for the Montagu Constituency where he served until September 1972.

Marais Viljoen

Viljoen was elected to the House of Assembly as MP for Alberton, near Johannesburg, as President of the Senate, and as acting State President from 21 August 1978 to 10 October 1978, after which B.J. Vorster was briefly elected to the position.

Max James

James ran as an independent candidate at the 2010 South Australian state election in the House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide held by Rann Labor Treasurer Kevin Foley.

Nyasha Chikwinya

She was elected to the House of Assembly in 1995, representing the Harare North constituency, but lost her seat in the 2000 elections, coming in second with just 4,852 votes, compared to 18,976 for Trudy Stevenson of the Movement for Democratic Change.

Randy Horton

On February 8, 2013 he was elected unopposed as Speaker of the House of Assembly, becoming the first member of an opposition party to hold that position.


see also

Attorney-General of the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Attorney-General is a member of the Cabinet and one of five unelected members of the House of Assembly.

Bahamas Democratic Movement

On March 24, 2005, Stuart and Smith again dominated the national news when they briefly prevented Prime Minister Perry Christie from accessing the House of Assembly.

Cabinet of Barbados

In the event of that failing to take place, the Governor-General must dissolve the House of Assembly and call an early election.

Collen Gwiyo

In 2008, he contested the Zengeza East constituency in the House of Assembly for the MDC-Tsvangirai faction, defeating Arthur Mutambara (the head of a rival faction of the MDC who remerged his faction with Tsvangirai's after the first round of the presidential election), ZANU-PF candidate Patrick Nyaruwata, and UPP candidate Simba Maxwell.

E. M. L. Endeley

Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley (1916–1988) was a Cameroonian politician who led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu and negotiated the creation of the autonomous region of Southern Cameroons in 1954.

General Assembly of Nova Scotia

Like the Canadian federal government, Nova Scotia uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which members are sent to the House of Assembly after general elections and from there the party with the most seats chooses a Premier of Nova Scotia and Executive Council of Nova Scotia.

Goodluck

Goodluck Nanah Opiah, (born 1964), Nigerian, a politician and Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly

Halifax Chebucto

However, in the 2013 election, the Liberal candidate, Joachim Stroink won, and now represents the riding in the House of Assembly.

Henry Currey

Henry Latham Currey (1863–1945), Member of the Cape House of Assembly and then of the House of Assembly of South Africa

Jamaican general election, 1884

In 1866 the Jamaican House of Assembly had been abolished during disturbances on the island following the Morant Bay rebellion.

John Alleyne

Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet (1724–1801), Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados

Parliament House, Hobart

In 1940 the current House of Assembly Chamber was constructed, and features a green decor, seating and carpet, with blackwood wooden paneling around the walls.

Reynell

Electoral district of Reynell, electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia

South African Constitution of 1961

In Natal and the Orange Free State, which each elected less than twenty-five members of the House of Assembly, the provincial councils consisted of twenty-five members.

In the Cape and Transvaal, the provincial councils consisted of the same number of members as the number of members of the House of Assembly elected from the province, elected from the same electoral divisions.

Thomas Burgess

Tom Burgess (Newfoundland politician), Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (1966-1972) and leader of the New Labrador Party (1969-1972)

Umaru Bago Tafida

In July 2009 he was part of a delegation led by the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar and including the Etsu Agaie, Muhammadu Kudu Abubakar that called on the House of Assembly to consider formation of a new Edu State as a base for the Nupe people.

Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008

Prior to the election being held, ZANU-PF won two seats where it was unopposed: the House of Assembly seat from Muzarabani South, won by Edward Raradza, and the Senate seat from Rushinga, won by Damien Mumvuri.