Editing Westminster system (section)

==Former countries==
The Westminster system was adopted by a number of countries which subsequently evolved or reformed their system of government departing from the original model. In some cases, certain aspects of the Westminster system were retained or codified in their constitutions. For instance [[Government of South Africa|South Africa]] and [[Politics of Botswana|Botswana]], unlike Commonwealth realms or parliamentary republics such as India, have a combined head of state and head of government but the President remains responsible to the lower house of parliament; it elects the President at the beginning of a new Parliament, or when there is a vacancy in the office, or when the sitting President is defeated on a vote of confidence. If the Parliament cannot elect a new President within a short period of time (a week to a month) the lower house is dissolved and new elections are called.

* {{flag|Union of South Africa}} between 1910 and 1961, and the {{flag|Republic of South Africa|1928}} between 1961 and 1984. The 1983 constitution abolished the Westminster system in South Africa.
* {{flag|Dominion of Newfoundland}} between 1907 and 1934, the year self-government was suspended and the [[Newfoundland Commission of Government|Commission of Government]] assumed direct rule from London. Use of the Westminster system resumed in 1949 when [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] became a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|province]] of [[Canada]].
* {{Flag|Rhodesia}} between 1965 and 1979, and {{Flag|Zimbabwe}} between 1980 and 1987. The 1987 constitution abolished the Westminster system.
* {{flag|Federation of Nigeria|name=Nigeria}} following the end of British colonial rule in 1960, which resulted in the appointment of a Governor-General and then a President, [[Nnamdi Azikiwe]]. The system ended with the [[1966 Nigerian coup d'état|military coup of 1966]].
* {{flag|Ceylon|1951}} between 1948 and 1972, and {{Flag|Sri Lanka}} from 1972 until 1978 when the constitution was remodelled into an Executive presidential system.
* {{flag|Union of Burma|name=Burma}} following independence in 1948 until the 1962 military coup d'état.
* {{flag|Dominion of Ghana|name=Ghana}} between 1957 and 1960, then 1969 and 1972.
* {{flagicon image|Flag of Somalia.svg}} [[State of Somaliland]] during its brief independence in 1960, with [[Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal]] as its first and only Prime Minister.
* {{flag|Eswatini}} (then known as Swaziland) between 1968 and 1973.
* {{flagcountry|Tanganyika (1961–1964)}} between 1961 and 1962.
* {{flag|Sierra Leone (1961–1971)|name=Sierra Leone}} between 1961 and 1971.
* {{flag|Uganda (1962–1963)|name=Uganda}} between 1962 and 1963.
* {{flag|Indonesia|name=Indonesia}} between 1949 and 1959.
* {{flag|Kenya (1963–1964)|name=Kenya}} between 1963 and 1964.
* {{flag|Malawi (1964–1966)|name=Malawi}} between 1964 and 1966.
* {{flag|The Gambia (1965–1970)|name=The Gambia}} between 1965 and 1970.
* {{flag|Guyana}} between 1966 and 1980.
* {{flag|Kingdom of Iraq}} between 1921 and 1958; during the monarchy, the Parliament of Iraq was a bicameral parliament made of an upper house of lords and a lower house of commons and was modelled after the Westminster system with some adjustments.
* {{flag|Kingdom of Egypt}} between 1923 and 1953; after the [[1919 Egyptian revolution]] the Parliament of Egypt was made to follow the exact model of the Westminster system.
* {{flag|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} between 1964 and [[1973 Afghan coup d'état|the end of the monarchy in 1973]].
* {{flag|Empire of Japan}} between 1890 and 1940; under the [[Meiji Constitution]] the [[Diet of Japan]] was a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German ''[[Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag]]'' and the Westminster system.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hein|first1=Patrick|title=How the Japanese became foreign to themselves : the impact of globalization on the private and public spheres in Japan|date=2009|publisher=Lit|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3643100856|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5QJsvhHwjVMC&pg=PA72}}</ref> Influence from the Westminster system remained in Japan's [[Constitution of Japan|Postwar Constitution]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moore|first1=Ray A.; Robinson, Donald L.|title=Partners for democracy : crafting the new Japanese state under MacArthur|date=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195171761|page=85|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ku1iq--PxN4C&pg=PA85}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Hook|editor-first=Glenn D.|title=Contested governance in Japan : sites and issues|date=2005|publisher=RoutledgeCurzon|location=London|isbn=978-0415364980|page=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSiOHT0xf8kC&pg=PA55}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Special Issue Constitutional Law in Japan and the United Kingdom|journal=King's Law Journal|date=2015|volume=2|issue=2|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/26/2}}</ref>