House of Representatives
House of Representatives is a name used by many countries for the lower house of a bicameral legislature. The corresponding upper house is typically called a 'senate'. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members of a house of representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography. The "House of Representatives" is the name of the lower house of parliament in the following countries:
- Australia – Australian House of Representatives
- Japan – House of Representatives of Japan
- United States – United States House of Representatives
- Philippines – House of Representatives of the Philippines
- Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico House of Representatives
- Belize
- Fiji
- Jamaica
- Trinidad and Tobago
In Indonesia, the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) is generally known in English as the "House of Representatives", as is the Dewan Rakyat of the Parliament of Malaysia. House of Representatives is the title of most, but not all, of the state legislatures of the States of the United States of America. Under apartheid, the House of Representatives was the house for South Africa's mixed race 'Coloured' community, in the tricameral parliament of 1984-1994.