Council of Representatives (Bahrain)

Council of Representatives
Type
Type	Lower house
Seats	40 members
Meeting place
Manama
Website
www.nuwab.gov.bh

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The Council of Representatives (Majlis an-nuwab), sometimes translated as the "Chamber of Deputies", is the name given to the lower house of the Bahraini National Assembly, the main legislative body of Bahrain.

The body was created by the 2002 Constitution of Bahrain. The Council comprises forty members elected by universal suffrage.

The forty seats of the Council of Representatives together with the forty royally-appointed seats of the Consultative Council form the Bahraini National Assembly.

The current chairman of the Council is Khalifa Al Dhahrani. The last elections for the Council were in October 2010.

Demonstration of authority

In March 2012 the Council of Representatives of Bahrain voted to reject a Royal Decree issued by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa for the first time since the Council’s establishment in 2002. The royal decree wanted to increase the government's share from 20 per cent to 50 per cent in the revenues of Tamkeen, the country’s labour fund. This was rejected by MPs from many parties, who refused to allow the government access to these funds.

Current MPs

  Sitting members of the Bahrain Council of Representatives (as of July 30, 2012)

Governorate	District	Candidate's name	Affiliation
Capital	1	Adel Assoumi		Independent
	2	Ahmed Qarata		Independent
	3	Ibtisam Ahmed		Independent
	4	Ali Shamtoot		Independent
	5	Hassan Bukhammas		Independent
	6	Abdulrahman Bumajeed		Independent
	7	Abdulhakeem Al Shemri		Independent
	8	Jamal Abdullah		Independent
Muharraq	1	Adel Al Maawda		Al Asalah
	2	Abdul Hameed Al Meer		Independent
	3	Ali Ahmed		Al Menbar
	4	Mahmood Al Mahmood		Independent
	5	Isa Al Kooheji		Independent
	6	Abbas Ali Maadhi		Independent
	7	Othman Sharif		Independent
	8	Sameer Kadhem		Independent
Northern	1	Ali Hassan Ali		Independent
	2	Sawsan Taqawi		Independent
	3	Ali Al Dirazi		Independent
	4	Hassan Al Dossari		Independent
	5	Salman Ali Al Shaikh		Independent
	6	Mohammed Ismail Al Ammadi		Al Menbar
	7	Khalid Al Malood		Independent
	8	Mohammed Bu Qais		Independent
	9	Khalid Abdulaal		Independent
Central	1	Samia Al Jowder		Independent
	2	Ahmed Al Saati		Independent
	3	Adnan Al Maliki		Independent
	4	Isa Al Qadhi		Independent
	5	Osama Mihna		Independent
	6	Jawad Hassan		Independent
	7	Abdulhalim Murad		Al Asalah
	8	Ali Zayed		Independent
	9	Khalifa Al Dhahrani		Independent
Southern	1	Jassim Al Saeedi		Independent
	2	Abdullah Huwail		Independent
	3	Ahmed Al Mulla		Independent
	4	Abdullah Al Dossari		Independent
	5	Khamis Al Rumaihi		Independent
	6	Lateefa Al Gaood		Independent
Source: Bahrain Council of Representatives website

2014 election

 Summary of the 22 and 29 November 2014 Council of Representatives of Bahrain elections results

Party		Ideology	Candidates	Elected - 1st round	Run off	Elected - 2nd round	Elected - Total	Elected - Previous	Elected - Change
	Al Asalah	Sunni Salafist	6	1	3	1	2	3	-1
	Al-Menbar Islamic Society	Sunni Islamist	5	-	4	1	1	2	-1
	Al Meethaq	Liberal	3	-	2	-	-	-	-
	Al Wasat		4	-	2	-	-	-	-
	Al Watan		10	-	2	-	-	-	-
	Al Wasat al Arabi		1	-	1	-	-	-	-
	National Unity Gathering		7	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Al Wefaq	Shia Islamist	-	-	-	-	-	18	-18
	Independents	Various	230	5	54	32	37	17	+20
	Total		266	6	68	34	40	40
Source: "Bahrain’s political societies lose big in polls". Gulf Daily News. 30 November 2014.

2010 election

 Summary of the 23 October and 30 October 2010 Council of Representatives of Bahrain elections results

Party		Ideology	Seats
	Al Wefaq	Shia Islamist	18
	Al Asalah	Sunni Salafist	3
	Al-Menbar Islamic Society	Sunni Islamist	2
	Independents	Various	17
	Total		40
Source: "Independents the biggest winners". Gulf Daily News. 1 November 2010.

See also

• Bahraini National Assembly
• Consultative Council of Bahrain
• Bahrain election 2006 women candidates
• List of Speakers of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain
• Politics of Bahrain
• List of legislatures by country

External links

• Council of Representatives official website
• Key issues are "ignored by MPs", Gulf Daily News, 21 January 2006 covers attitudes among civil society groups to MPs' performance since 2002
• Constitution of Bahrain (2002):Part 2 The Chamber of Deputies