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

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Presumed notability and subnational politicians

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.


UN member state	Federal polity	Subnational parliamentary bodies with presumed notability status	AfD precedents
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda		Uncertain if members of the Barbuda Council have presumed notability.
Argentina		Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
Armenia
Australia		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	^[1]	Members of the state Landtage are presumed notable.
Azerbaijan		Members of the National Assembly (Artsakh) and the Supreme Assembly (Nakhchivan) are presumed notable.	[1] [2] [★3]
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium	^[1]^[2]	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
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia		Uncertain if members of the Departmental Legislative Assemblies are presumed notable.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	^[3]	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
Brazil		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 Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada	^[1]	Members of the legislative assemblies of the provinces and territories are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China		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
Comoros	^[4]	Members of the Autonomous Island Assemblies of Anjouan, Mohéli and Grande Comore are presumed notable.
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus		Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus) are presumed notable.
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Denmark		Members of the Løgting (Faroe Islands) and the Inatsisartut (Greenland) are presumed notable.
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia		Members of the Regional State Councils are presumed notable.
Fiji		Members of the Council of Rotuma are unlikely to have presumed notability.
Finland		Members of the Parliament of Åland are presumed notable.	[1]
France		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
Gambia
Georgia		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		Members of the state parliaments are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See‡
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India	^[5]^[6]	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]
Indonesia		Members of the People's Representative Council of Aceh may have presumed notability.
Iran
Iraq		Members of the Kurdistan Region Parliament are presumed notable.
Ireland
Israel
Italy		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
Japan		Members of the Prefecture Assemblies are not presumed notable.	[1]
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya	^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]	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
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia	^[5]	Members of the state legislative assemblies are presumed notable.
Maldives			[1]
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Monaco
Mauritius		Members of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly may have presumed notability.
Mexico		Members of the Mexican state legislatures are presumed notable.
Moldova		Uncertain whether members of the Supreme Council (Transnistria) and the Halk Topluşu ( Gagauzia) are presumed notable.
Micronesia	^[4]	Members of the State Legislatures ( Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap) are presumed notable.
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco		Members of the Sahrawi National Council (Western Sahara) may have presumed notability.
Mozambique
Myanmar		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
Nauru
Nepal	^[5]	Members of the Provincial Assemblies are presumed notable.
Netherlands		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		Members of the General Fono (Tokelau) and the Niue Assembly are presumed notable.
Nicaragua		Uncertain if members of the devolved councils of the North and South Caribbean Coast autonomous regions are presumed notable.
Niger
Nigeria		Members of the Houses of Assembly of Nigerian states are presumed notable.	[1] [♦2]
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan	^[5]	Members of the provincial and territorial assemblies, including the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
Palau	^[12]^[4]	members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
Palestine‡		Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council are presumed notable.
Panama
Papua New Guinea		Members of the Bougainville House of Representatives are presumed notable.
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines		Uncertain whether members of the Bangsamoro Parliament are presumed notable.
Poland
Portugal		Members of the Legislative Assemblies of the Azores and Madeira are presumed notable.
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Romania
Russia	^[13]	Members of the regional parliaments of Russia are presumed notable.	[1]
Rwanda
St. Kitts and Nevis	^[12]	Members of the Nevis Island Assembly are presumed notable.
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe		Uncertain if members of the legislature of the Autonomous Region of Príncipe have presumed notability.
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia		Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina and the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo are presumed notable.	[1]
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia	^[14]^[15]	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	^[16]^[17]	Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
South Sudan		State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
Spain	^[18]	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
Sudan		State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland	^[1]	Members of the Cantonal parliaments are presumed notable.
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania		Members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives are presumed notable.
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago		Uncertain if members of the Tobago House of Assembly have presumed notability.
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine		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		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		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 of America		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]
Uruguay
Uzbekistan		Members of the Supreme Council of Karakalpakstan are presumed notable.
Vanuatu
Venezuela		Members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

★ 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 does not apply.
♦ 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

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 an individual subjects further in the past.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Erk, Jan (2007). Explaining federalism: state, society and congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781134082575.
^ Brenton, Scott (6 January 2022). "Does federalism enhance representative democracy? Perpetual reform and shifting power in a divided Belgium". Journal of Contemporary European Studies: 1–19. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2021.2023482.
^ Keil, Soeren (2016). Multinational federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781317093435.
^ ^a ^b ^c Anckar, Dag (April 2003). "Lilliput Federalism: Profiles and Varieties". Regional & Federal Studies. 13 (3): 107–124. doi: 10.1080/13597560308559437.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bhattacharyya, Harihar (2021). Federalism in Asia: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar (Second ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781000069327.
^ Tillin, Louise (2019). Indian federalism (First ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199495610.
^ Gathii, James Thuo; Otieno, Harrison Mbori (December 2018). "Assessing Kenya's Cooperative Model of Devolution: A Situation-Specific Analysis". Federal Law Review. 46 (4): 595–613. doi: 10.1177/0067205X1804600407.
^ Suberu, Rotimi T. (2015). "Federalism and Decentralization". In Cheeseman, Nic; Anderson, David M.; Scheibler, Andrea (eds.). Routledge handbook of African politics. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781315088563.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)
^ Cheeseman, Nic; Lynch, Gabrielle; Willis, Justin (March 2016). "Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 54 (1): 1–35. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X1500097X.
^ Shilaho, Westen K. (2015). "Third Time Lucky? Devolution and State Restructure under Kenya's 2010 Constitutional Dispensation". In LeVan, A. Carl; Fashagba, Joseph Olayinka; McMahon, Edward R. (eds.). African state governance: subnational politics and national power. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 147–177. ISBN 978-1-137-52334-1.
^ "Constitution of Kenya, 2010". www.kenyalaw.org. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b Veenendaal, Wouter P. (October 2015). "Origins and Persistence of Federalism and Decentralization in Microstates". Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 45 (4): 580–604. doi: 10.1093/publius/pjv017.
^ Sakwa, Richard (2013). "Russia: Involuted federalism and segmented regionalism". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 259–272. ISBN 978-0-415-56621-6.
^ Dahir, Abdinor; Sheikh Ali, Ali Yassin (8 November 2021). "Federalism in post-conflict Somalia: A critical review of its reception and governance challenges". Regional & Federal Studies: 1–20. doi: 10.1080/13597566.2021.1998005.
^ Tawane, Abdi (7 April 2017). "Federalism In Africa: The Case Of Somalia". ZeHabesha.
^ Steytler, Nico (2013). "South Africa: The reluctant hybrid federal state". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism. Routledge. pp. 442–454. ISBN 978-0-415-56621-6.
^ Haysom, Nicholas (2005). "The "Federalism" debate in South African Constitution-Making Process". In Valadés, Diego; Serna de la Garza, José María (eds.). Federalismo y regionalismo (PDF). Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas - UNAM. pp. 655–680. ISBN 970-32-2500-4.
^ Morata, Francesc (2013). "Spain: The autonomic state". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge handbook of regionalism and federalism. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203395974.ch19. ISBN 9780203395974.

[Erk-1] Erk, Jan (2007). Explaining federalism: state, society and congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781134082575.

[2] Brenton, Scott (6 January 2022). "Does federalism enhance representative democracy? Perpetual reform and shifting power in a divided Belgium". Journal of Contemporary European Studies: 1–19. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2021.2023482.

[3] Keil, Soeren (2016). Multinational federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781317093435.

[Anckar-4] Anckar, Dag (April 2003). "Lilliput Federalism: Profiles and Varieties". Regional & Federal Studies. 13 (3): 107–124. doi: 10.1080/13597560308559437.

[Bhattacharyya-5] Bhattacharyya, Harihar (2021). Federalism in Asia: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar (Second ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781000069327.

[6] Tillin, Louise (2019). Indian federalism (First ed.). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199495610.

[7] Gathii, James Thuo; Otieno, Harrison Mbori (December 2018). "Assessing Kenya's Cooperative Model of Devolution: A Situation-Specific Analysis". Federal Law Review. 46 (4): 595–613. doi: 10.1177/0067205X1804600407.

[8] Suberu, Rotimi T. (2015). "Federalism and Decentralization". In Cheeseman, Nic; Anderson, David M.; Scheibler, Andrea (eds.). Routledge handbook of African politics. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781315088563.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

[9] Cheeseman, Nic; Lynch, Gabrielle; Willis, Justin (March 2016). "Decentralisation in Kenya: the governance of governors". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 54 (1): 1–35. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X1500097X.

[10] Shilaho, Westen K. (2015). "Third Time Lucky? Devolution and State Restructure under Kenya's 2010 Constitutional Dispensation". In LeVan, A. Carl; Fashagba, Joseph Olayinka; McMahon, Edward R. (eds.). African state governance: subnational politics and national power. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 147–177. ISBN 978-1-137-52334-1.

[11] "Constitution of Kenya, 2010". www.kenyalaw.org. Retrieved 7 March 2022.

[Veenendaal-12] Veenendaal, Wouter P. (October 2015). "Origins and Persistence of Federalism and Decentralization in Microstates". Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 45 (4): 580–604. doi: 10.1093/publius/pjv017.

[13] Sakwa, Richard (2013). "Russia: Involuted federalism and segmented regionalism". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. pp. 259–272. ISBN 978-0-415-56621-6.

[14] Dahir, Abdinor; Sheikh Ali, Ali Yassin (8 November 2021). "Federalism in post-conflict Somalia: A critical review of its reception and governance challenges". Regional & Federal Studies: 1–20. doi: 10.1080/13597566.2021.1998005.

[15] Tawane, Abdi (7 April 2017). "Federalism In Africa: The Case Of Somalia". ZeHabesha.

[16] Steytler, Nico (2013). "South Africa: The reluctant hybrid federal state". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism. Routledge. pp. 442–454. ISBN 978-0-415-56621-6.

[17] Haysom, Nicholas (2005). "The "Federalism" debate in South African Constitution-Making Process". In Valadés, Diego; Serna de la Garza, José María (eds.). Federalismo y regionalismo (PDF). Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas - UNAM. pp. 655–680. ISBN 970-32-2500-4.

[18] Morata, Francesc (2013). "Spain: The autonomic state". In Loughlin, John; Kincaid, John; Swenden, Wilfried (eds.). Routledge handbook of regionalism and federalism. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203395974.ch19. ISBN 9780203395974.

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