A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses oft

							                                                Australia

 In Australia, the term "Member of Parliament" refers to a Member of the House of Representatives, the
 lower house of the Commonwealth (i.e. federal) parliament. Members may use "MP" after their names;
"MHR" is not used, although it was used as a post-nominal in the past. A member of the upper house of
                    ."the Commonwealth parliament, the Senate, is known as a "Senator

 In the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (lower
 house) may also use the post-nominal "MP". Members of the Legislative Council (upper house) use the
                                         ."post-nominal "MLC
                                           edit] Bangladesh[

In Bangladesh members of the Jatiyo Sangshad, or National Assembly, are elected every five years and
are referred to in English as Members of Parliament. The assembly has 345 seats, including 45 reserved
                                               .for women

                                   List of 9th Parliament Members:
              http://www.parliament.gov.bd/MP%20List%20Partywise_9th%20Edition.pdf

          List of 8th Parliament Members: http://www.parliament.gov.bd/M_P%20List-300.pdf
                                             edit] Canada[

 In Canada, the Parliament of Canada consists of the upper house, the Senate of Canada, and the lower
  house, the Canadian House of Commons. Therefore, members of both houses are properly termed as
"Member of Parliament". However, in common parlance, only members of the lower house are referred to
     as Members of Parliament (French: député) and members of the upper house are called Senators
 (Senateur).[1] There are 105 seats in the Senate and 308 in the House of Commons.[2]Members of the
    lower house are elected while members of the Senate are appointed by the Prime Minister. Senate
            .appointments usually last until the member reaches the age of 75 when they retire

Each province has its own unicameral legislature, with each member usually known as a Member of the
 Legislative Assembly (MLA), although in certain provinces they carry other titles: Member of Provincial
Parliament (MPP) in Ontario; Member of the National Assembly (MNA) in Quebec (in French an MNA is
     .called a député); or Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) in Newfoundland and Labrador
                                              edit] India[

In India, the term Member of Parliament refers to all the members of the Sansad, the Indian Parliament,
                           .whether in the Lok Sabha or in the Rajya Sabha

The members of the Lok Sabha are elected popularly by constituencies in each of the Indian states and
Union territories, while members of the Rajya Sabha are elected indirectly by the State legislatures. Each
  state is allocated a fixed number of representatives in each chamber, with the state of Uttar Pradesh
 having the greatest number. The central government is formed by the party or coalition which has the
                       .greatest number of directly elected members in the Lok Sabha
                                                edit] Ireland[

   In Ireland, the term Member of Parliament can refer to the members of the pre-1801 Irish House of
    Commons of the Parliament of Ireland. It can also refer to Irish members elected to the House of
             .Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922

       .Northern Ireland continues to elect MPs to the modern Parliament of the United Kingdom

Following the formation of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, members of the lower house of the
Oireachtas (parliament), Dáil Éireann (or "the Dáil") are termed Teachtaí Dála (Teachta Dála singular) or
        .TDs. The upper house is called Seanad Éireann and its members are called Senators
                          )See also: Member of Parliament (pre-Union Ireland
                                              edit] Kenya[

  The National Assembly of Kenya consists of 210 elected members and twelve who are nominated, all
                               ]being called Members of Parliament.[3
                                            edit] Malaysia[
                                 Main article: Parliament of Malaysia

 The Malaysian Parliament is modelled after the Parliament of the United Kingdom and consists of two
 houses, known as the Dewan Rakyat, which is the House of Representatives, and Dewan Negara, the
                                               .Senate

    The members of the Dewan Rakyat are elected in general elections or by-elections, whereas the
members of the Dewan Negara are either appointed by the king, in recognition of outstanding service to
.their country or chosen by the states. Each state appoints a number of senators proportional to its size

   Members of Parliament are styled Yang Berhormat ("Honourable") with the initials Y.B. appended
      .prenominally. A prince who is a Member of Parliament is styled Yang Berhormat Mulia
                                           edit] Malta[

 The Parliament of Malta consists of the President of Malta and the House of Representatives currently
made up of 69 members (article 51 of the Constitution). Only these members of the House are referred to
as "Members of Parliament" (article 52(1) of the Constitution). When appointed from outside the House,
the Speaker is also considered a member of the Parliament. The Constitution lists the qualifications and
                      ]disqualifications from serving as a Member of Parliament.[4

     Privileges of Members of Parliament as well as their Code of Ethics are laid out in the House of
                        ]Representatives (Privileges and Powers) Ordinance.[5
                                              edit] Nauru[

 The Parliament of Nauru consists of 18 seats. Members of Parliament are entitled to use the prefix The
                                             .Honourable
                                          edit] New Zealand[
                  Main articles: New Zealand Parliament and New Zealand elections

   The Parliament of New Zealand is formally made up of the monarch and the unicameral House of
 Representatives. Member of Parliament is now the term for a member of the House of Representatives,
    which normally has 120 members, elected at a general election every three years. There are 69
  constituency members, seven of whom are elected by the Māori who have chosen to vote in special
.Māori seats, while the remaining 51 members are elected by proportional representation from party lists

  Before 1951, New Zealand had a bicameral (or two-chamber) parliament. Members of the Legislative
   Council, abbreviated MLC, were appointed. Members of the lower house, the body which still exists
 today, have always been elected. Since 1907, elected members have been referred to as 'Members of
Parliament', abbreviated MP. Since the 1860s until 1907, they were designated as Members of the House
   of Representatives, abbreviated MHR. Between 1853 (the year of the first general election) and the
          ]1860s, the designation was Members of the General Assembly, abbreviated MGA.[6
                                            edit] Pakistan[

  In Pakistan, Member of Parliament refers to a member of Parliament (National Assembly of Pakistan,
                  .Qaumi Assembly). The National Assembly is based in Islamabad
                                            edit] Singapore[

  In Singapore, Members of Parliament refers to elected members of the Parliament of Singapore, the
   appointed Non-Constituency Members of Parliament from the opposition, as well as the Nominated
 Members of Parliament, who may be appointed from members of the public who have no connection to
                                  .any political party in Singapore
                        See also: Cabinet of Singapore and List of Singapore MPs
                                             edit] Sri Lanka[

In Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament refers to a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka (since 1978), the
 National State Assembly (1972–78) and the House of Representatives of Ceylon (1947–72), the lower
                                   .house of the Parliament of Ceylon
                                         edit] United Kingdom[
See also: List of United Kingdom MPs, List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, MPs elected in the UK
 general election, 2010, Number of Westminster MPs, Salaries of Members of the UK Parliament, and
                        Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom

                  :The United Kingdom contains members of three different parliaments

   the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in which only members elected at irregular intervals to the
       )(lower) House of Commons are referred to as Members of Parliament, abbreviated to MP(s
 the European Parliament, in which members representing the whole of the UK are elected every five
                    )years and are called Members of the European Parliament (MEPs
 the Scottish Parliament, in which members representing the whole of Scotland are elected every four
                     )years and are called Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs
the present Northern Ireland Assembly's members are known as Members of the Legislative Assembly
 (MLA).Between 1921 and 1973, Northern Ireland was governed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland, a
               .devolved assembly whose members were known as Members of Parliament
the National Assembly for Wales consists of sixty elected members, but it is not called a parliament, its
    members instead being referred to in English as Assembly Members (AMs) or in Welsh as Aelod y
                                            ]Cynulliad (AC).[7

   Members of the House of Commons are elected in general elections and by-elections to represent
constituencies by the first-past-the-post system of election, and may remain Members until Parliament is
dissolved, which must occur within five years of the last general election, as laid down in the Parliament
                                                .Act 1911

A candidate to become a Member of Parliament must be a British or Irish or Commonwealth citizen, must
  be over 18, and must not be a public official or officeholder, as set out in the schedule to the Electoral
  Administration Act 2006[8] (this was a reduction in the lower age limit, as candidates needed to be 21
                                   .)until the law came into effect in 2006

Members of Parliament are technically forbidden to resign their seats (though they are not forbidden from
refusing to seek re-election). To leave the house between elections voluntarily, a Member of Parliament
     must accept a "paid office under the Crown". Two nominally paid offices under the Crown – the
Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead – exist to allow members to apply for
a paid office under the Crown and thereby to achieve a resignation from the House. Accepting a salaried
        ]Ministerial office does not amount to a paid office under the Crown for these purposes.[9

   The basic salary of a member of the House of Commons was increased to £64,766 with effect from 1
        April 2009.[10] Some MPs (ministers, the Speaker, senior opposition leaders etc.) receive a
  supplementary salary for their specific responsibilities. As of 1 April 2008 these increments range from
      £14,039 for Select Committee Chairs to £130,959 for the Prime Minister. Members also receive
expenses, including paying for buying and furnishing accommodation required when away from their main
    homes.[11] The pension arrangements of UK MPs are equally generous. The Member will normally
 receive a pension of either 1/40th or 1/50th of their final pensionable salary for each year of pensionable
  service depending on the contribution rate they will have chosen. Members who make contributions of
 10% of their salary gain an accrual rate of 1/40th.[12] An MP who has served 26 years and retiring today
    could look forward to receiving an annual inflation-proof payout of £40,000 from their pension. State
contributions for British Members of Parliament are more than four times higher than the average paid out
   by companies for final-salary schemes, although they are not significantly more generous than most
                                         ]public sector pensions.[13
 Members of the House of Lords, however their membership comes about, are members of a legislative
chamber which is part of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Although technically they are part of the
 parliament, they are never referred to in the United Kingdom as members of parliament but as peers, or
more formally as Lords of Parliament. They sit either for life, in the case of the Lords Temporal, or so long
   as they continue to occupy their ecclesiastical positions in the case of the Lords Spiritual. Hereditary
peers may no longer pass on a seat in the House of Lords to their heir automatically. The ninety-two who
  remain have been elected from among their own number, following the House of Lords Act 1999 and,
                       ]paradoxically, are the only elected members of the Lords.[14
                                               edit] Zimbabwe[

    In Zimbabwe, the title "Member of Parliament" is used by members of the House of Assembly of
       .Zimbabwe. Members of the upper house of Parliament are instead referred to as Senators
                                         edit] Other systems[

   Member of Parliament can be used to translate the term used to describe representatives in other
 parliamentary democracies that do not follow the Westminster system, who are usually referred to in a
  different fashion such as Deputé in France, Diputado, Deputado in Portugal and Brazil, Mitglied des
             .Bundestages (MdB) in Germany. However, better translations are often possible
                                           edit] Afghanistan[

In Afghanistan the term Member of Parliament refers to the members of both chambers of the bicameral
National Assembly of Afghanistan, the 249 members of the lower Wolesi Jirga (House of the People) and
                   .)the 102 members of the upper Mesherano Jirga (House of Elders
                                             edit] Austria[

In Austria, the term Member of Parliament refers to the members of the two chambers of the Parliament
 of Austria (Österreichisches Parlament). The members of the Nationalrat are called Abgeordnete zum
Nationalrat. The members of the Bundesrat, elected by the provincial diets (Landtage) of the nine federal
                       .States of Austria, are known as Mitglieder des Bundesrats
                                               edit] Bulgaria[

  In Bulgaria there are 240 MPs in the normal parliament and 400 in the "Great Parliament". The Great
 Parliament is elected when a new constitution is needed. There have been seven Great Parliaments in
               .modern Bulgarian history, in 1879, 1881, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1946 and 1990
                                              edit] Germany[

In Germany, Member of Parliament refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at
the Reichstag building in Berlin. In German a member is called Mitglied des Bundestages (Member of the
  Federal Diet) or officially Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages (Member of the German Federal Diet),
                                             ]abbreviated MdB.[15

  The 16 federal States of Germany (Länder) are represented by the Bundesrat at the former Prussian
 House of Lords, whose members are representatives of the respective Länder's governments and not
directly elected by the people. In accordance with article 38 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of
 Germany, which is the German constitution, "[m]embers of the German Bundestag shall be elected in
general, direct, free, equal, and secret elections. They shall be representatives of the whole people, not
                ".bound by orders or instructions, and responsible only to their conscience
                                                edit] Iceland[
                                        Further information: Alþingi
                                                 edit] Israel[

) refers to one of the 120 Members of the ‫: חבר הכנסת‬In Israel, the term Member of the Knesset (Hebrew
                    ."Knesset. The title is almost always shortened to the initialism "MK
                                              See also: Knesset
                                                  edit] Italy[
  In the Republican Italian Parliament the current term is Deputato (that is deputy as appointed to act on
    people's behalf) and so the Lower House takes the name of Camera dei Deputati. Similarly to other
 countries, the Upper House is called Senato and its members are the Senatori. The Deputati are known
                                    .)by the title onorevole (honorable
                                                edit] Lebanon[

   The Parliament of Lebanon is the Lebanese national legislature. It is elected to a four-year term by
universal adult suffrage in multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian
 and Muslim denominations. Its major functions are to elect the President of the Republic, to approve the
government (although appointed by the President, the Prime Minister, along with the Cabinet, must retain
  the confidence of a majority in the Parliament), and to approve laws and expenditure. The name of a
                    .)‫ (نواب‬The plural of Naeb is Nuwab .)‫ (نائة‬deputy in Arabic is Naeb
                                         edit] Republic of Macedonia[

 In the Republic of Macedonia there are 120 Members of Parliament (Macedonian: Sobranie) which are
                                 .)called 'Pratenici' (singular Pratenik
                                         edit] The Netherlands[

     The parliament of the Netherlands is known as the Staten-Generaal, literally States-General. It is
 bicameral, divided in two Kamers (Chambers). The Senate is known in Dutch as the Eerste Kamer (First
 Chamber) and its members as "senatoren", senators. The House of Representatives, known in Dutch as
   the Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber), is the most important one. The important debates take place
here. Also, the Second Chamber can edit proposed laws with amendments and it can propose laws itself.
The Senate does not have these capabilities. Its function is more a technical reviewing of laws. It can only
pass a law or reject it. Both chambers are in The Hague which is the seat of parliament but not the official
                               .capital of the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam

    The 150 members of the House of Representatives are elected by general elections every 4 years
(unless the government falls). The 75 members of the Senate are elected indirectly. The members of the
12 provincial parliaments elect the senators. The value of a vote of a member of a provincial parliament is
  relative to the population of the province. Provincial parliaments, the States-Provincial, are elected by
                                      .general elections every four years
                                                 edit] Norway[

In Norway, the term Members of Parliament refers to the elected members of the Norwegian parliament,
 Stortinget. These members are called stortingsrepresentanter (literal translation: Representatives of the
      Storting). Since 2009, Norway has had a unicameral parliament, which previously consisted of
 Odelstinget and Lagtinget, Odelstinget with three quarters, or 127, of the total 169 members, Lagtinget
   with the remainder. The dividing of the parliament into chambers was only used when dealing with
passing regular laws and in cases of prosecution by the national court (riksrett). In other matters, such as
passing the national budget or changing the constitution (the latter requiring a majority of two-thirds), the
                                         .chambers were united

    The members of the present unicameral Parliament of Norway are chosen by popular vote at the
                        .beginning of each parliamentary period of four years
                                             edit] Poland[
                         Further information: Sejm of the Republic of Poland
                                            edit] Portugal[

 In Portugal a Member of the Portuguese Parliament is known as deputado, a person who is appointed
  after democratic election to act on people's behalf. The parliament takes the name of Assembleia da
                                                .República
                                                edit] Spain[
                     )See also: List of members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain
 In Spain the word parlamento -of the same origin as Parliament in English- is used as a common name
for all legislative assemblies, and hence parlamentario for the member of any of them, which can usually
                                                  :refer

 To members of both chambers of the national legislature (Cortes Generales), that is the Congress of
                                     .Deputies and the Senate
       .To members of the regional devolved legislatures of the Autonomous Communities
                           .To members of the European Parliament

Members of the Congress of Deputies, as can be implied from its name, are called diputados (deputies),
 impliying that they are elected to act in the name and on behalf of the people they represent. It is also
              .usual to mention the members of the European Parliament as eurodiputados
                                                edit] Sweden[
             See also: Parliament of Sweden and List of members of the Swedish Riksdag

In Sweden, Members of Parliament refers to the elected members of the Parliament of Sweden (Swedish:
  Sveriges riksdag). In Swedish, an MP is usually referred to as a riksdagsledamot or a riksdagsman (the
 former is in more common use today, especially in official contexts, due its status as a unisex word, while
          .)the latter was used more often historically and literally refers to a male MP exclusively

The parliament is a unicameral assembly with 349 members who are chosen every four years in general
elections. To become an MP, a person must be entitled to vote (i.e. be a Swedish citizen, be at least 18
  ]years old and be or have been resident in Sweden) and must be nominated by a political party.[16

   The salaries of the MPs are decided by the Riksdag Pay Committee (Riksdagens arvodesnämnd), a
  government agency under the parliament. Since 1 November 2007, the basic monthly pay of an MP is
  SEK52,900 (ca. US$8,300). The pay of the Speaker is SEK126,000 a month (ca. US$20,000), which is
the same as that of the Prime Minister.[17] The Deputy Speakers receive an increment of 30 % of the pay
of a member. The chairs and deputy chairs of the parliamentary committees receive a similar increment of
                                    ]20 % and 15 % respectively.[18

         According to a survey investigation by the sociologist Jenny Hansson,[19] Swedish national
    parliamentarians have an average work week of 66 hours, including side responsibilities. Hansson's
.investigation further reports that the average Swedish national parliamentarian sleeps 6.5 hours per night
                                                edit] Thailand[

  In the Kingdom of Thailand, Members of Parliament (                           or . .) refers to the elected
members of the National Assembly of Thailand. Following the military coup d'état on 19 September 2006, all its
500 members are suspended from duty until the next election. The House of Representatives of Thailand
 was fully reconvened after the general elections under a new constitution. Under the 2007 Constitution
   there are 500 Members of Parliament, 375 elected from constituencies and the other 125 through
                                                .party-list
                                               edit] Turkey[
                              See also: Turkish Grand National Assembly

 In the Republic of Turkey, the term member of parliament refers to the elected members of the Turkish
   Grand National Assembly, or TGNA (Turkish: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi, TBMM), which has 550
                 .members elected at a general election for a term of office of four years