National Assembly Building, Lusaka

There are 156 parliamentary constituencies in Zambia that each elect one member to the National Assembly (building pictured), the country's unicameral legislature. The assembly meets in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and is presided over by the speaker of the National Assembly and two deputy speakers. The National Assembly was established upon Zambia's independence in 1964 to succeed the Legislative Council of the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. Since 2016, it has 167 members, of which 156 are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, a further eight are appointed by the president of Zambia, and three are ex officio members. The Constitution of Zambia mandates that the constituencies are delimited after every census by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. (Full list...)