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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
East Timor
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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