House of Representatives مجلس النواب اليمني | |
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| History | |
| Founded | 1990 |
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| Seats | 301 |
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| Committees | Unknown |
Joint committees | Unknown |
| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 27 April 2003 |
Next election | TBD (indefinitely postponed) |
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TheHouse of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwaab) is thelower house of the Parliament ofYemen. It shares the legislative power with theShura Council, theupper house.[2][3] The Assembly of Representatives has 301 members, elected for a six-year term in single-seatconstituencies. It is one of the rare parliamentary chambers in the world to currently have no female representation.[4]
The House of Representatives was established in 1990 after the unification of Yemen for a transitional period.[5] An election hasn't been held for the body since 2003. An election was set for 27 April 2009, butpresidentSaleh postponed it by two years on 24 February 2009.[6][7] However, the election did not take place on 27 April 2011, and was again postponed until thenext presidential election, sometime in February 2014.[8][9]In January 2014, the final session of theNational Dialogue Conference (NDC) announced that both elections had been delayed, and would occur within 9 months of a referendum on a new constitution which had yet to be drafted.[10] However both theGPC andHouthi representatives on the National Authority for Monitoring the Implementation of NDC Outcomes have refused to vote on the new constitution drafted by the constitution drafting committee, which submitted it in January 2015.[11]
In February 2015, theHouthis briefly dissolved parliament before reportedly agreeing to reinstate the 301-member assembly inUN-brokered talks. Under the agreement, it will be augmented by a "people's transitional council" serving as theupper house.[12]
Since the civil war, the House of Representatives had held semi-regular sessions in Sanaa inHouthi Yemen. On 13 April 2019, the first session was held inSeiyun, in Hadi-controlledHadhramaut Governorate.[13]
The lastparliamentary election in Yemen took place in 2003.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| General People's Congress | 3,465,117 | 57.79 | 229 | +42 | |
| Al-Islah | 1,349,485 | 22.51 | 45 | –8 | |
| Yemeni Socialist Party | 291,541 | 4.86 | 7 | New | |
| Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation | 109,714 | 1.83 | 3 | 0 | |
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | 40,872 | 0.68 | 2 | 0 | |
| General People's Congress–Al-Islah | 25,352 | 0.42 | 1 | New | |
| National Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | 23,745 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nasserist Reform Organisation | 15,257 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Union of Popular Forces | 11,967 | 0.20 | 0 | – | |
| Democratic Nasserist Party | 9,829 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Democratic Front | 7,056 | 0.12 | 0 | – | |
| Social Nationalist Party – Yemen | 5,349 | 0.09 | 0 | – | |
| Party of Truth | 4,585 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Democratic Party | 4,077 | 0.07 | 0 | – | |
| Democratic Union of Popular Forces | 3,003 | 0.05 | 0 | – | |
| Social Green Party | 2,276 | 0.04 | 0 | – | |
| Popular Unity Party | 1,739 | 0.03 | 0 | – | |
| Yemeni League Party | 1,383 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
| Liberation Front Party | 1,282 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
| Popular Unionist Liberation Party | 1,241 | 0.02 | 0 | – | |
| Yemeni Unionist Gathering | 483 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
| Democratic September Organization | 81 | 0.00 | 0 | – | |
| Independents | 620,615 | 10.35 | 14 | –40 | |
| Total | 5,996,049 | 100.00 | 301 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 5,996,049 | 96.69 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 205,205 | 3.31 | |||
| Total votes | 6,201,254 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,097,514 | 76.58 | |||
| Source:Yemen NIC | |||||
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