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...e [[Single Transferable Vote]] (STV). Its powers are similar to those of [[lower house]]s under many other [[bicameralism|bicameral]] [[parliamentary system]]s an ...rawn from the Republic's small parliament and the need, therefore, for the lower house to provide a sufficiently large pool of talent for skilled individuals to b

...Among the founders of the Chilean Socialist Party in 1933, elected to the lower house of Congress in 1937, and introduced legislation on public health and the ri

...in the daido danketsu (coalition) movement. He was elected a member of the lower house of the Diet in the first general election held in 1890, and was consecutive

...nsist that is at the same time the upper house (or that the Commons is the lower house) is, I suggest, an unnecessary and pedantic reflection of their relative s

...he fourth [[Hirabumi Ito|Ito]] government. After his 1902 election to the lower house of the Diet, he was president of the ''Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun'' newspape

...wo houses of parliament: the upper house the Legislative Council, and the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. At present, the Liberal party is in power and t

...reau director and vice-minister in the ministry and became a member of the lower house of the Diet in 1911.

...n the [[House of Commons (United Kingdom)|House of Commons]], which is the lower house of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]]. Following the dissoluti

...party]] won a landslide victory in the [[House of Representatives of Japan|lower house]] [[parliament]]ary [[general election|elections]] in August 2009, ousting

...nd unelected governments, like the [[United Kingdom]] which has an elected lower house, the [[House of Commons]], and an appointed [[House of Lords]].

...] [[Ronald Reagan]], but none of those efforts got so far as a vote by the lower house of [[Congress]].<ref name=npr2013-08-27/>

...Congressional District of Arizona]] in the [[U.S. House of Representatives|lower house]] of the [[U.S. Congress]] since 2007. Her official biography lists her pri

...=Islamic Party of Afghanistan of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has 34 members in the lower house of parliament

...ress"). To become law, proposed legislation must be approved first by the lower house, then the upper house, and then signed by the President within ten days (ex

...srat]]'' is not as powerful as the ''[[Bundestag]]'', the directly elected lower house. The upper house is appointed by elected state governments. [[Angela Merkel

...ke place in 1959. Koirala's congress won in two-thirds of the seats in the lower house. After several weeks of hesitation King Mahendra approved Koirala's name to

...gh Whitlam]], despite the fact that Whitlam retained the confidence of the lower house of the Parliament, and commissioned a new Prime Minister who had given an u

...'''''[[Dáil Éireann]]''''' (pronouned {{IPA|[d̪ˠaːlʲ ˈeːrʲən̪ˠ]}}), is the lower house of the [[Ireland (state)|Irish]] [[bicameral]] parliament. The upper house

...iet. The Diet was a bicameral national assembly, partially elective in the lower house, but certainly not a full democratic legislature. <ref>{{citation