Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly

Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Sembilan
13th Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	1959
Leadership
Yang di-Pertuan Besar	Tuanku Muhriz Since 29 December 2008
Speaker	Dr. Awaluddin Said, BN–UMNO Since 17 June 2013
Menteri Besar	Mohamad Hassan, BN–UMNO Since 25 March 2004
Opposition Leader	Anthony Loke Siew Fook, PH–DAP Since 17 June 2013
Structure
Seats	36 Quorum: 12 Simple majority: 19 Two-thirds majority: 24
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Political groups	(As of 24 February 2016) Government      Barisan Nasional (22) EXCO Members: 11 Backbenchers: 11      UMNO (21)      MIC (1) Opposition      Pakatan Harapan (14)      DAP (11)      PKR (3)      Independent (0)      Vacant (0)
Committees	4 Public Accounts Committee Rules of Proceedings Committee Right and Privileges Committee Committee of Selection
Elections
Voting system	Plurality: First-past-the-post (36 single-member constituencies)
Last election	5 May 2013
Next election	on or before 17 August 2018
Meeting place
Wisma Negeri, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Website
www.ns.gov.my

The Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Sembilan) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. It consists of 36 members who represent single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are held no more than five years apart, and are usually conducted simultaneously with elections to the federal parliament and other state assemblies (except Sarawak). It is unicameral.

The Assembly convenes at the Wisma Negeri in the state capital, Seremban.

Current composition

For a complete list of members, see Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2013-) § Negeri Sembilan.

22	14
Barisan Nasional	Pakatan Harapan

Role

The Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly's main function is to enact laws that apply in the state. The Speaker presides over proceedings in the Assembly.

The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, as head of state, opens each session of the State Assembly. During the first sitting of each legislative session, he is joined by the four Undangs of Negeri Sembilan and the Tunku Besar of Tampin, the very people who elected him.

The leader of the majority party of coalition in the Assembly assumes the role of Menteri Besar. He appoints members of the State Executive Council, the executive branch of the Negeri Sembilan government.

External links

• Negeri Sembilan State Government official website