House of Representatives (Nigeria)

House of Representatives
4th National Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house of the National Assembly of Nigeria
Leadership
Speaker of the House of Representatives	Yakubu Dogara , APC Since 6 June 2015
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives	Yusuf Sulaiman Lasun, APC Since 6 June 2015
Structure
Seats	360
Political groups	Governing Party   All Progressives Congress (225) Opposition Parties   People's Democratic Party (125)   Other parties (10)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	April 2015
Meeting place
Abuja
Website
http://www.nass.gov.ng

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The House of Representatives is the lower house of the country's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate of Nigeria is the upper house.

The current House of Representatives, formed following elections held in April 2015, has a total of 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house.

Nigerian state delegations

Map legend	State	Senators	Federal constituencies
1	Abia State	3	8
2	Adamawa State	3	8
3	Akwa-Ibom State	3	10
4	Anambra State	3	11
5	Bauchi State	3	12
6	Bayelsa State	3	5
7	Benue State	3	11
8	Borno State	3	10
9	Cross River State	3	8
10	Delta State	3	10
11	Ebonyi State	3	6
12	Edo State	3	9
13	Ekiti State	3	6
14	Enugu State	3	8
15	Gombe State	3	6
16	Imo State	3	10
17	Jigawa State	3	11
18	Kaduna State	3	16
19	Kano State	3	24
20	Katsina State	3	15
21	Kebbi State	3	8
22	Kogi State	3	9
23	Kwara State	3	6
24	Lagos State	3	24
25	Nasarawa State	3	5
26	Niger State	3	10
27	Ogun State	3	9
28	Ondo State	3	9
29	Osun State	3	9
30	Oyo State	3	14
31	Plateau State	3	8
32	Rivers State	3	13
33	Sokoto State	3	11
34	Taraba State	3	6
35	Yobe State	3	6
36	Zamfara State	3	7
37	Federal capital territory (Abuja)	1	2
All		109	360

Members (since 1980s)

• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 1983–1992
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 1992–1998
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 1998–1999
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 1999–2003
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 2003–2007
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 2007–2011
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 2011–2015
• List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 2015–present

See also

• History of Nigeria
• Legislative branch
• List of national legislatures
• Nigerian First Republic
• Nigerian Second Republic
• Nigerian Third Republic
• Nigerian Fourth Republic