Seats 360 | Voting system First-past-the-post | |
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Type Lower house of the National Assembly of Nigeria Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara , APC
Since 6 June 2015 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Yusuf Sulaiman Lasun, APC
Since 6 June 2015 Political groups Governing Party
All Progressives Congress (225)
Opposition Parties
People's Democratic Party (125)
Other parties (10) | ||
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the country's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate of Nigeria is the upper house.
The current House of Representatives, formed following elections held in April 2015, has a total of 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house.
Members (since 1979)
References
House of Representatives (Nigeria) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA