Editing Politics of Tanzania (section)

==Legislative branch==
[[File:Hamisi Kigwangalla Bungeni.jpg|thumb|right|Hon. [[Hamisi Kigwangalla|Kigwangalla]] addressing the parliament]]
The unicameral [[National Assembly of Tanzania]] or Bunge has 393 seats — 264 elected by popular vote, 113 allocated to women chosen by their parties in proportion to their share of the electoral vote, 10 nominated by the president, five members chosen by the Zanzibar House of Representatives, and the Attorney General as an [[ex officio member]] — all members serving five-year terms. In addition to enacting laws that apply to the entire United Republic of Tanzania, the Assembly enacts laws that apply only to the mainland. [[Zanzibar]] has its own House of Representatives to make laws especially for Zanzibar (the Zanzibar House of Representatives has 70 seats, directly elected by universal suffrage to serve five-year terms).

Wikipedia has a [[List of Tanzania National Assembly members|list of current members of the Bunge]] arranged in two ways, alphabetically by member and alphabetically by constituency.

[[Tanzania]]'s National Assembly members are elected concurrently by direct [[Direct election|popular vote]] for 5-year terms. The [[unicameral]] National Assembly elected in 2000 had 295 members. These 295 members included the [[Attorney General]], five members elected from the [[Zanzibar House of Representatives]] to participate in the Parliament, the 48 special women's seats which were made up of 20% of the seats a particular party had in the House, 181 constituents seats of members of Parliament from the mainland, and 50 seats from [[Zanzibar]], as well as seats for the 10 members of Parliament nominated by the President.  The ruling [[Chama Cha Mapinduzi|CCM]] holds about 86% of the seats in the Assembly elected in 2005, and held 93% of seats in the previous Assembly elected in 2000.

Laws passed by the National Assembly are valid for Zanzibar only in specifically designated union matters. Zanzibar's House of Representatives has jurisdiction over all non-union matters. There are currently 76 members in the House of Representatives in Zanzibar, including 50 elected by the people, 10 appointed by the president of Zanzibar, 5 exofficio members, and an attorney general appointed by the president. In May 2002, the government increased the number of special seats allocated to women from 10 to 15, which will increase the number of House of Representatives members to 81. Ostensibly, Zanzibar's House of Representatives can make laws for Zanzibar without the approval of the union government as long as it does not involve union-designated matters. The terms of office for Zanzibar's president and House of Representatives also are 5 years. The semiautonomous relationship between Zanzibar and the union is a relatively unique system of government.