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The [[unicameral]] '''National Assembly''' is [[Zambia]]'s legislative body.


The current National Assembly, formed following elections held on 20 September 2011, has a total of 156 members (2 pending by-elections). 150 members are directly elected in single-member [[Constituency|constituencies]] using the simple majority (or [[First-past-the-post]]) system. The remaining 8 seats are filled through [[President of Zambia|presidential]] appointment. All members serve five-year terms.
Political party distribution among the 150 directly elected seats is as follows:
{{Zambian parliamentary election, 2011}}
{{main|Zambian parliamentary election, 2011}}
[[Amusaa Mwanamwambwa]] is the retired past [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of the National Assembly.
== Previous National Assembly election results ==
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|- bgcolor=#e8e8e8
! align="left" scope="col" rowspan="2"| [[Political Party]]
! align="center" scope="col" colspan="8"| [[Election]] Year
|-
|- bgcolor=#e8e8e8
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1991
! scope="col" | 1996
! scope="col" | 2001
! scope="col" | 2006
|-
| align="left" | [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP)
| align="center" | 55
| align="center" | 81
| align="center" | 25
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 13
| align="center" | -*
|-
| align="left" | [[Movement for Multi-Party Democracy]] (MMD)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 125
| align="center" | 131
| align="center" | 69
| align="center" | 74
|-
| align="left" | [[Patriotic Front (PF)]]
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 1
| align="center" | 44
|-
| align="left" | [[United Party for National Development]] (UPND)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 49
| align="center" | -*
|-
| align="left" | [[Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD)]]
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 12
| align="center" | -*
|-
| align="left" | [[United Democratic Alliance (Zambia)|United Democratic Alliance]] (UDA)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 27*
|-
| align="left" | [[United Liberal Party (Zambia)|United Liberal Party]] (ULP)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 2
|-
| align="left" | [[Heritage Party (Zambia)|Heritage Party]] (HP)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 4
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[National Democratic Focus]] (NDF)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 1
|-
| align="left" | [[Zambia Republican Party]] (ZRP)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 1
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[African National Congress (Zambia)|African National Congress]] (ANC)
| align="center" | 10
| align="center" | 23
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[National Progressive Party (Zambia)|National Progressive Party]] (NPP)
| align="center" | 10
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[National Party (Zambia)|National Party]] (NP)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 05
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[Agenda for Zambia]] (AZ)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 02
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[Zambian Democratic Congress]] (ZDC)
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 02
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 10
| align="center" | 1
| align="center" | 2
|-
| align="left" | Others
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | 01
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
| align="center" | -
|-
| align="left" | '''Total'''
| align="center" | '''75'''
| align="center" | '''105'''
| align="center" | '''150'''
| align="center" | '''150'''
| align="center" | '''150'''
| align="center" | '''150'''
|-
| align="left" colspan=7| *UPND, FDD, and UNIP contested the 2006 election under the UDA alliance
|}
'''Notes''': Zambia was a [[one-party state]] with the United National Independence Party (UNIP) as the sole legal party from 1972 to 1990.


== See also ==
== See also ==
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*{{Official website|http://www.parliament.gov.zm}}
*{{Official website|http://www.parliament.gov.zm}}


{{Africa legislatures}}
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