United Republic of Tanzania
National Assembly
About parliament
Basic information such as the official name of parliament and details of its structure and leadership. Also includes the current breakdown of MPs by sex and age, and provisions for quotas and reserved seats.
Parliament name
Bunge (National Assembly)
Chamber name
Bunge (National Assembly)
Parliamentary term (years)
5
IPU membership
Affiliation periods
from 1984
IPU Geopolitical Group/s
IPU Geopolitical Groups: African Group, Arab Group, Asia-Pacific Group, Eurasia Group, Group of Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC), Twelve Plus Group.
African Group
Speaker
Official title
The Speaker may for example be known as the Presiding Officer, President, Chairman/Chairperson, etc.
Speaker of the National Assembly
Speaker
Tulia
Ackson
(Female)
Year of birth
1976
Term
01.02.2022
Additional information
Elected on 1 Feb. 2022.
Secretary General
Official title
This post is most commonly called Secretary General or Clerk. It may also be called Secretary, Head/Chief of the Secretariat, Director General, etc.
Clerk
Secretary General
Nenelwa J.
Mwihambi
(Female)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Appointed on 15 May 2021.
Members
Statutory number of members
Statutory number of members, as defined in the constitution or other fundamental law.
Principal mode of designation of members
Directly elected
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Directly elected members
Directly elected by citizens.
264
Indirectly elected members
Indirectly elected, for example by regional parliaments or an electoral college.
118
Appointed members
Appointed, for example, by the Head of State.
10
Other members
For example, ex-officio members of parliament, such as Cabinet members, members of the royal family, Attorney General, Speaker if appointed from outside parliament.
1
Note on the statutory number of members
Indirectly elected members: includes 113 women elected by political parties in proportion to their share of the electoral vote; and five members from Zanzibar (two of whom must be women).
Appointed members: appointed by the President (five of whom must be women).
Other: the Attorney General.
The Speaker may be designated from outside Parliament and becomes a member of parliament by virtue of holding the office of Speaker.
Appointed members: appointed by the President (five of whom must be women).
Other: the Attorney General.
The Speaker may be designated from outside Parliament and becomes a member of parliament by virtue of holding the office of Speaker.
Current number of members
Number of members who currently hold seats in parliament. May be lower or higher than the statutory number of members.
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Statutory number of members per country
As defined in the constitution or other fundamental laws. Combines the number of parliamentarians in both chambers in bicameral parliaments.
Population (in thousands)
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Age
Data on the age of parliamentarians is collected at the start of the legislature, following the most recent elections. This data is not updated during the legislature, except when parliament notifies the IPU of a change in the youngest or oldest member.
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Ng'wasi Damas Kamani (Female)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
74
Oldest member
Margaret Simwanza Sitta (Female)
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 17 | 79 | 61 | 61 | 92 | 35 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 157 | Total >= 46: 191 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 4 | 47 | 36 | 42 | 61 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 215 |
| Female | 0 | 13 | 32 | 25 | 19 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 133 |
Members for whom data is available
Reserved seats and quotas
There are reserved seats in parliament for certain groups
Reserved seats are a means to ensure the parliamentary representation of certain groups in society.
Number of reserved seats, by group
Women
102
Notes
5 (from Zanzibar)
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
Women members must not make up less than 30% in the National Assembly. The special seats for women are distributed among the political parties in proportion to the number of seats awarded to them in parliament.
‘Every Political Party which contests Parliamentary elections may propose and submit the Commission names of eligible women candidates for nomination of Members of Parliament for Women Special Seats’ . (Source: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas )
‘Every Political Party which contests Parliamentary elections may propose and submit the Commission names of eligible women candidates for nomination of Members of Parliament for Women Special Seats’ . (Source: https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas )
Legal source
Legal text that stipulates the quota, such as the Constitution or electoral law.
Constitution, article 66, 78; Elections Regulations 2010, 86A
Electoral quota for youth
Quotas to promote the representation of youth in parliament.
Links to additional information
Parliamentary website
Link(s) to parliamentary web site in English, French and/or local languages.
List of members
Link(s) to list of members on the parliamentary web site.
Constitution
Official links to the Constitution in English, French and/or original language is provided. Links to unofficial translations where no other source is available.