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Drawing on WP:POLITICIAN, the following table lists the subnational parliaments whose members can be accorded presumed notability.

This page is intended as a reference tool and contains a selection of outcomes reached in deletion discussions as an appendix to WP:POLOUTCOMES. It may assist articles for deletion discussions, but does not supplant any Wikipedia policy or guideline.

Presumed notability and subnational politicians

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The Wikipedia guideline WP:POLITICIAN has been consistently interpreted to accord presumed notability to members of subnational parliaments (legislatures) in federal nation-states. The significance of these subnational bodies relates to their law-making powers. This is in contrast to bodies, such as municipal councils, whose power is limited to administrative, supervisory or regulatory functions. Generally speaking, federal political systems devolve legislative powers to lower, subnational levels (such as a state or province), whereas unitary political systems do not, with legislative power concentrated at the national level.

However, there are countries with unitary political systems that include autonomous legislative bodies (ie bodies with primary law-making powers) due to unique historical circumstances or geographic necessity. Further, there are countries which are nominally unitary states, but operate akin to federal systems with subnational bodies granted substantive legislative power.

Members of local/municipal bodies or members of bodies without law-making powers have generally been denied presumed notability (see WP:POLOUTCOMES); that is, members of bodies only capable of enacting subordinate (secondary) legislation are not presumed notable under the criteria established in WP:POLITICIAN.

A member of a subnational body not accorded presumed notability may still reach notability thresholds through the general notability guidelines.

Note

The column titled "Federal polity" indicates whether the country operates a federal political system. The column titled "Subnational presumed notability" indicates whether there are subnational legislatures where presumed notability can be accorded to members of those bodies. Yellow shading indicates uncertainty.

Flag UN member state Federal polity Subnational presumed notability Subnational parliamentary bodies with presumed notability status AfD precedents
Afghanistan
 Afghanistan No No
Albania
 Albania No No
Algeria
 Algeria No No
Andorra
 Andorra No No
Angola
 Angola No No
Antigua and Barbuda
 Antigua and Barbuda No Maybe Uncertain if members of the Barbuda Council have presumed notability.
Argentina
 Argentina Yes Yes Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
Armenia
 Armenia No No
Australia
 Australia Yes Yes Members of the Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are presumed notable. Members of the Norfolk Legislative Assembly (1979-2015) are presumed notable, whereas members of the Norfolk Island Regional Council (2016-) are not. Members of the shire councils of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island do not have presumed notability. [1]
Austria
 Austria Yes[1] Yes Members of the state Landtage are presumed notable.
Azerbaijan
 Azerbaijan No Yes Members of the National Assembly (Artsakh) and the Supreme Assembly (Nakhchivan) are presumed notable. [1] [2] [★3]
The Bahamas
 Bahamas No No
Bahrain
 Bahrain No No
Bangladesh
 Bangladesh No No Members of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly (1947–1971) are presumed notable.
Barbados
 Barbados No No
Belarus
 Belarus No No
Belgium
 Belgium Yes[1][2] Yes Members of the Flemish Parliament, the Parliament of Wallonia, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Parliament of the French Community, and the Parliament of the German-speaking Community are presumed notable.
Belize
 Belize No No
Benin
 Benin No No
Bhutan
 Bhutan No No
Bolivia
 Bolivia No Maybe Uncertain if members of the Departmental Legislative Assemblies are presumed notable.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Yes [3] Yes Members of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the National Assembly (Republika Srpska) are presumed notable. It is uncertain if members of the cantonal assemblies of the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina have presumed notability.
Botswana
 Botswana No No
Brazil
 Brazil Yes Yes Members of the Legislative Assemblies of Brazilian states are presumed notable. Members of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District may have presumed notability.
Brunei
 Brunei Darussalam No No
Bulgaria
 Bulgaria No No
Burkina Faso
 Burkina Faso No No
Burundi
 Burundi No No
Cape Verde
 Cabo Verde No No
Cambodia
 Cambodia No No
Cameroon
 Cameroon No No
Canada
 Canada Yes[1] Yes Members of the legislative assemblies of the provinces and territories are presumed notable. [1] [2]
Central African Republic
 Central African Republic No No
Chad
 Chad No No
Chile
 Chile No No
China
 China No Yes Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Legislative Assembly of Macau are presumed notable. Members of the Autonomous Regional People's Congresses of the autonomous regions of China are possibly presumed notable.
Colombia
 Colombia No No
Comoros
 Comoros Yes[4] Yes Members of the Autonomous Island Assemblies of Anjouan, Mohéli and Grande Comore are presumed notable.
Republic of the Congo
 Congo No No
Cook Islands
 Cook Islands No No
Costa Rica
 Costa Rica No No
Ivory Coast
 Côte d'Ivoire No No
Croatia
 Croatia No No
Cuba
 Cuba No No
Cyprus
 Cyprus No Yes Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus) are presumed notable.
Czech Republic
 Czech Republic No No
Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Democratic Republic of the Congo No No
North Korea
 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No No
Denmark
 Denmark No Yes Members of the Løgting (Faroe Islands) and the Inatsisartut (Greenland) are presumed notable.
Djibouti
 Djibouti No No
Dominica
 Dominica No No
Dominican Republic
 Dominican Republic No No
Ecuador
 Ecuador No No
Egypt
 Egypt No No
El Salvador
 El Salvador No No
Equatorial Guinea
 Equatorial Guinea No No
Eritrea
 Eritrea No No
Estonia
 Estonia No No
Eswatini
 Eswatini No No
Ethiopia
 Ethiopia Yes Yes Members of the Regional State Councils are presumed notable.
Fiji
 Fiji No No Members of the Council of Rotuma are unlikely to have presumed notability.
Finland
 Finland No Yes Members of the Parliament of Åland are presumed notable. [1]
France
 France No Yes Members of the territorial legislatures of French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin [fr], Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna are presumed notable. It is uncertain if members of the Corsican Assembly have presumed notability. Members of the mainland regional councils are not presumed notable. [1] [2]
Gabon
 Gabon No No
The Gambia
 Gambia No No
Georgia (country)
 Georgia No Maybe Members of the Parliament of South Ossetia and the People's Assembly of Abkhazia likely have presumed notability. Members of the Supreme Council of Adjara may have presumed notability.
Germany
 Germany Yes Yes Members of the state parliaments are presumed notable. [1] [2]
Ghana
 Ghana No No
Greece
 Greece No No
Grenada
 Grenada No No
Guatemala
 Guatemala No No
Guinea
 Guinea No No
Guinea-Bissau
 Guinea-Bissau No No
Guyana
 Guyana No No
Haiti
 Haiti No No
Holy See
 Holy See‡ No No
Honduras
 Honduras No No
Hungary
 Hungary No No
Iceland
 Iceland No No
India
 India Yes[5][6] Yes Members of the Legislative Assemblies and Councils of the States and Union Territories are presumed notable. Members of the Autonomous District Councils may or may not have presumed notability. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Indonesia
 Indonesia No Maybe Members of the People's Representative Council of Aceh may have presumed notability.
Iran
 Iran No No
Iraq
 Iraq Yes Yes Members of the Kurdistan Region Parliament are presumed notable.
Republic of Ireland
 Ireland No No
Israel
 Israel No No
Italy
 Italy No Yes Members of the Landtag of South Tyrol and the Trentino Council are presumed notable. Members of the autonomous legislatures of the Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, and Sicily may have presumed notability. [1]
Jamaica
 Jamaica No No
Japan
 Japan No No Members of the Prefecture Assemblies are not presumed notable. [1]
Jordan
 Jordan No No
Kazakhstan
 Kazakhstan No No
Kenya
 Kenya Maybe [7][8][9][10] Maybe The 2010 Constitution of Kenya created a devolved system of County Assemblies (see s.185 of the Constitution).[11] Editors to date have not accorded presumed notability for membership in the assemblies. [1]
Kiribati
 Kiribati No No
Kuwait
 Kuwait No No
Kyrgyzstan
 Kyrgyzstan No No
Laos
 Laos No No
Latvia
 Latvia No No
Lebanon
 Lebanon No No
Liechtenstein
 Liechtenstein No No
Lesotho
 Lesotho No No
Liberia
 Liberia No No
Libya
 Libya No No
Lithuania
 Lithuania No No
Luxembourg
 Luxembourg No No
Madagascar
 Madagascar No No
Malawi
 Malawi No No
Malaysia
 Malaysia Yes [5] Yes Members of the state legislative assemblies are presumed notable.
Maldives
 Maldives No No [1]
Mali
 Mali No No
Malta
 Malta No No
Marshall Islands
 Marshall Islands No No
Mauritania
 Mauritania No No
Monaco
 Monaco No No
Mauritius
 Mauritius No Maybe Members of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly may have presumed notability.
Mexico
 Mexico Yes Yes Members of the Mexican state legislatures are presumed notable.
Moldova
 Moldova No Maybe Uncertain whether members of the Supreme Council (Transnistria) and the Halk Topluşu (Gagauzia) are presumed notable.
Federated States of Micronesia
 Micronesia Yes[4] Yes Members of the State Legislatures (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap) are presumed notable.
Mongolia
 Mongolia No No
Montenegro
 Montenegro No No
Morocco
 Morocco No Maybe Members of the Sahrawi National Council (Western Sahara) may have presumed notability.
Mozambique
 Mozambique No No
Myanmar
 Myanmar No No Members of the State and Regional Hluttaws do not have presumed notability. Wa State is autonomous, but does not appear to have a legislature.
Namibia
 Namibia No No
Nauru
 Nauru No No
Nepal
 Nepal Yes[5] Yes Members of the Provincial Assemblies are presumed notable.
Kingdom of the Netherlands
 Netherlands No Yes Members of the Parliaments of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are presumed notable. Members of the Provincial Councils are not presumed notable. [1]
New Zealand
 New Zealand No Yes Members of the General Fono (Tokelau) and the Niue Assembly are presumed notable.
Nicaragua
 Nicaragua No Maybe Uncertain if members of the devolved councils of the North and South Caribbean Coast autonomous regions are presumed notable.
Niger
 Niger No No
Nigeria
 Nigeria Yes Yes Members of the Houses of Assembly of Nigerian states are presumed notable. [▲1] [2] [▲3] [♦4] [★5] [6] [7]
North Macedonia
 North Macedonia No No
Norway
 Norway No No
Oman
 Oman No No
Pakistan
 Pakistan Yes[5] Yes Members of the provincial and territorial assemblies, including the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, are presumed notable. [1] [2]
Palau
 Palau Yes[12][4] Yes members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
State of Palestine
 Palestine‡ No No Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council are presumed notable.
Panama
 Panama No No
Papua New Guinea
 Papua New Guinea No Yes Members of the Bougainville House of Representatives are presumed notable.
Paraguay
 Paraguay No No
Peru
 Peru No No
Philippines
 Philippines No Maybe Uncertain whether members of the Bangsamoro Parliament are presumed notable.
Poland
 Poland No No
Portugal
 Portugal No Yes Members of the Legislative Assemblies of the Azores and Madeira are presumed notable.
Qatar
 Qatar No No
South Korea
 Republic of Korea No No
Romania
 Romania No No
Russia
 Russia Yes[13] Yes Members of the regional parliaments of Russia are presumed notable. [1]
Rwanda
 Rwanda No No
Saint Kitts and Nevis
 St. Kitts and Nevis Yes[12] Yes Members of the Nevis Island Assembly are presumed notable.
Saint Lucia
 St. Lucia No No
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 St. Vincent and the Grenadines No No
Samoa
 Samoa No No
San Marino
 San Marino No No
São Tomé and Príncipe
 São Tomé and Príncipe No Maybe Uncertain if members of the legislature of the Autonomous Region of Príncipe have presumed notability.
Saudi Arabia
 Saudi Arabia No No
Senegal
 Senegal No No
Serbia
 Serbia No Yes Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina and the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo are presumed notable. [1]
Seychelles
 Seychelles No No
Sierra Leone
 Sierra Leone No No
Singapore
 Singapore No No
Slovakia
 Slovakia No No
Slovenia
 Slovenia No No
Solomon Islands
 Solomon Islands No No
Somalia
 Somalia Yes [14][15] Yes Members of the Parliament of Somaliland and the House of Representatives of Puntland are presumed notable. Members of the legislatures of the four other Federal member states may have presumed notability. [1]
South Africa
 South Africa Maybe [16][17] Yes Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
South Sudan
 South Sudan Yes No State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
Spain
 Spain Yes[18] Yes Members of the legislative bodies of the Autonomous communities of Spain are presumed notable. Members of provincial councils do not have presumed notability. [1] [2] [3]
Sri Lanka
 Sri Lanka No No
Sudan
 Sudan Yes No State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
Suriname
 Suriname No No
Sweden
 Sweden No No
Switzerland
 Switzerland Yes [1] Yes Members of the Cantonal parliaments are presumed notable.
Syria
 Syria No No
Tajikistan
 Tajikistan No No
Tanzania
 Tanzania No Yes Members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives are presumed notable.
Thailand
 Thailand No No
Timor-Leste
 Timor-Leste No No
Togo
 Togo No No
Tonga
 Tonga No No
Trinidad and Tobago
 Trinidad and Tobago No Maybe Uncertain if members of the Tobago House of Assembly have presumed notability.
Tunisia
 Tunisia No No
Turkey
 Turkey No No
Turkmenistan
 Turkmenistan No No
Tuvalu
 Tuvalu No No
Uganda
 Uganda No No
Ukraine
 Ukraine No Yes Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea and the State Council of Crimea are presumed notable. Members of the separatist councils of Donetsk and Luhansk pre- and post-annexation may have presumed notability. Members of the oblast councils do not have presumed notability.
United Arab Emirates
 United Arab Emirates Yes No While the Emirates of the United Arab Emirates have subnational bodies akin to those in federal systems, consensus to date is that membership in these bodies does not accord presumed notability. [1]
United Kingdom
 United Kingdom No Yes Members of the devolved legislatures of the United Kingdom are presumed notable. Members of the assemblies of the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories are likely to have presumed notability.
United States
 United States of America Yes Yes Members of the state legislatures are presumed notable. Members of the legislatures of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa are presumed notable. Members of the Council of the District of Columbia may have presumed notability. [1] [2] [3] [★4] [▲5] [6] [7] [▲8] [♦9]
Uruguay
 Uruguay No No
Uzbekistan
 Uzbekistan No Yes Members of the Supreme Council of Karakalpakstan are presumed notable.
Vanuatu
 Vanuatu No No
Venezuela
 Venezuela Yes Yes Members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
Vietnam
 Viet Nam No No
Yemen
 Yemen No No
Zambia
 Zambia No No
Zimbabwe
 Zimbabwe No No

★ Indicates an AfD discussion which relates to the status of the subnational jurisdiction, rather than membership in a parliamentary body.
▲ Indicates an AfD discussion relating to a subnational jurisdiction, where presumed notability was not accorded.
♦ Indicates an AfD discussion relating to a subnational jurisdiction with no consensus.
‡ The Holy See and the State of Palestine hold non-member observer state status in the United Nations.

Former subnational legislatures

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Formerly existing countries, such as the German Empire, British Raj or the Soviet Union, have had federal systems or devolved/autonomous parliaments. Similarly, some modern countries, like Indonesia, may have once had a federal system or devolved/autonomous parliaments but no longer do. Politicians of these former subnational entities fall under this provision of WP:NPOL, although there is likely less information available about these individual subjects further in the past.

See also

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References

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