Wikipedia:Notability (people)/Subnational politicians

The Wikipedia guideline WP:POLITICIAN has been consistently interpreted to accord presumed notability to members of subnational parliaments (legislatures) in federal nation-states. The significance of these subnational bodies relates to their law-making powers. This is in contrast to bodies, such as municipal councils, whose power is limited to administrative, supervisory or regulatory functions. Generally speaking, federal political systems devolve legislative powers to lower, subnational levels (such as a state or province), whereas unitary political systems do not, with legislative power concentrated at the national level.

However, there are countries with unitary political systems that include autonomous legislative bodies (ie bodies with primary law-making powers) due to unique historical circumstances or geographic necessity. Further, there are countries which are nominally unitary states, but operate akin to federal systems with subnational bodies granted substantive legislative power.

Members of local/municipal bodies or members of bodies without law-making powers have generally been denied presumed notability (see WP:POLOUTCOMES); that is, members of bodies only capable of enacting subordinate (secondary) legislation are not presumed notable under the criteria established in WP:POLITICIAN.

A member of a subnational body not accorded presumed notability may still reach notability thresholds through the general notability guidelines.

Note

The column titled "Federal polity" indicates whether the country operates a federal political system. The column titled "Subnational presumed notability" indicates whether there are subnational legislatures where presumed notability can be accorded to members of those bodies. Yellow shading indicates uncertainty.

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Presumed notability and subnational politicians

Flag	UN member state	Federal polity	Subnational presumed notability	Subnational parliamentary bodies with presumed notability status	AfD precedents
	Afghanistan
	Albania
	Algeria
	Andorra
	Angola
	Antigua and Barbuda			Uncertain if members of the Barbuda Council have presumed notability.
	Argentina			Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
	Armenia
	Australia			Members of the Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are presumed notable. Members of the Norfolk Legislative Assembly (1979–2015) are presumed notable, whereas members of the Norfolk Island Regional Council (2016–present) are not. Members of the shire councils of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island do not have presumed notability.	[1]
	Austria	[1]		Members of the state Landtage are presumed notable.
	Azerbaijan			Members of the National Assembly (Artsakh) and the Supreme Assembly (Nakhchivan) are presumed notable.	[1] [2] [★3]
	Bahamas
	Bahrain
	Bangladesh			Members of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly (1947–1971) are presumed notable.
	Barbados
	Belarus
	Belgium	[1][2]		Members of the Flemish Parliament, the Parliament of Wallonia, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Parliament of the French Community, and the Parliament of the German-speaking Community are presumed notable.
	Belize
	Benin
	Bhutan
	Bolivia			Uncertain if members of the Departmental Legislative Assemblies are presumed notable.
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	[3]		Members of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the National Assembly (Republika Srpska) are presumed notable. It is uncertain if members of the cantonal assemblies of the Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina have presumed notability.
	Botswana
	Brazil			Members of the Legislative Assemblies of Brazilian states are presumed notable. Members of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District may have presumed notability.
	Brunei Darussalam
	Bulgaria
	Burkina Faso
	Burundi
	Cabo Verde
	Cambodia
	Cameroon
	Canada	[1]		Members of the legislative assemblies of the provinces and territories are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
	Central African Republic
	Chad
	Chile			Members of Regional Councils (Consejos Regionales) are presumed notable. Members of Provincial Assemblies, during the federal stage of Chile (1826-1833) are notable.
	China			Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Legislative Assembly of Macau are presumed notable. Members of the Autonomous Regional People's Congresses of the autonomous regions of China are possibly presumed notable.
	Colombia
	Comoros	[4]		Members of the Autonomous Island Assemblies of Anjouan, Mohéli and Grande Comore are presumed notable.
	Congo
	Cook Islands
	Costa Rica
	Côte d'Ivoire
	Croatia
	Cuba
	Cyprus			Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus) are presumed notable.
	Czech Republic
	Democratic Republic of the Congo
	Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
	Denmark			Members of the Løgting (Faroe Islands) and the Inatsisartut (Greenland) are presumed notable.
	Djibouti
	Dominica
	Dominican Republic
	Ecuador
	Egypt
	El Salvador
	Equatorial Guinea
	Eritrea
	Estonia
	Eswatini
	Ethiopia			Members of the Regional State Councils are presumed notable.
	Fiji			Members of the Council of Rotuma are unlikely to have presumed notability.
	Finland			Members of the Parliament of Åland are presumed notable.	[1]
	France			Members of the territorial legislatures of French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin [fr], Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna are presumed notable. It is uncertain if members of the Corsican Assembly have presumed notability. Members of the mainland regional councils are not presumed notable.	[1] [2]
	Gabon
	Gambia
	Georgia			Members of the Parliament of South Ossetia and the People's Assembly of Abkhazia likely have presumed notability. Members of the Supreme Council of Adjara may have presumed notability.
	Germany			Members of the state parliaments are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
	Ghana
	Greece
	Grenada
	Guatemala
	Guinea
	Guinea-Bissau
	Guyana
	Haiti
	Holy See‡
	Honduras
	Hungary
	Iceland
	India	[5][6]		Members of the Legislative Assemblies and Councils of the States and Union Territories are presumed notable. Members of the Autonomous District Councils may or may not have presumed notability.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
	Indonesia			Members of the People's Representative Council of Aceh may have presumed notability.
	Iran
	Iraq			Members of the Kurdistan Region Parliament are presumed notable.
	Ireland
	Israel
	Italy			Members of the Landtag of South Tyrol and the Trentino Council are presumed notable. Members of the autonomous legislatures of the Aosta Valley, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, and Sicily may have presumed notability.	[1]
	Jamaica
	Japan			Members of the Prefecture Assemblies are not presumed notable.	[1]
	Jordan
	Kazakhstan
	Kenya	[7][8][9][10]		The 2010 Constitution of Kenya created a devolved system of County Assemblies (see s.185 of the Constitution).[11] Editors to date have not accorded presumed notability for membership in the assemblies.	[1]
	Kiribati
	Kuwait
	Kyrgyzstan
	Laos
	Latvia
	Lebanon
	Liechtenstein
	Lesotho
	Liberia
	Libya
	Lithuania
	Luxembourg
	Madagascar
	Malawi
	Malaysia	[5]		Members of the state legislative assemblies are presumed notable.
	Maldives				[1]
	Mali
	Malta
	Marshall Islands
	Mauritania
	Monaco
	Mauritius			Members of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly may have presumed notability.
	Mexico			Members of the Mexican state legislatures are presumed notable.
	Moldova			Uncertain whether members of the Supreme Council (Transnistria) and the Halk Topluşu (Gagauzia) are presumed notable.
	Micronesia	[4]		Members of the State Legislatures (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap) are presumed notable.
	Mongolia
	Montenegro
	Morocco			Members of the Sahrawi National Council (Western Sahara) may have presumed notability.
	Mozambique
	Myanmar			Members of the State and Regional Hluttaws do not have presumed notability. Wa State is autonomous, but does not appear to have a legislature.
	Namibia
	Nauru
	Nepal	[5]		Members of the Provincial Assemblies are presumed notable.
	Netherlands			Members of the Parliaments of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are presumed notable. Members of the Provincial Councils are not presumed notable.	[1]
	New Zealand			Members of the General Fono (Tokelau) and the Niue Assembly are presumed notable.
	Nicaragua			Uncertain if members of the devolved councils of the North and South Caribbean Coast autonomous regions are presumed notable.
	Niger
	Nigeria			Members of the Houses of Assembly of Nigerian states are presumed notable.	[▲1] [2] [▲3] [♦4] [★5] [6] [7]
	North Macedonia
	Norway
	Oman
	Pakistan	[5]		Members of the provincial and territorial assemblies, including the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, are presumed notable.	[1] [2]
	Palau	[12][4]		members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
	Palestine‡			Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council are presumed notable.
	Panama
	Papua New Guinea			Members of the Bougainville House of Representatives are presumed notable.
	Paraguay
	Peru
	Philippines			Uncertain whether members of the Bangsamoro Parliament are presumed notable.
	Poland
	Portugal			Members of the Legislative Assemblies of the Azores and Madeira are presumed notable.
	Qatar
	Republic of Korea
	Romania
	Russia	[13]		Members of the regional parliaments of Russia are presumed notable.	[1]
	Rwanda
	St. Kitts and Nevis	[12]		Members of the Nevis Island Assembly are presumed notable.
	St. Lucia
	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
	Samoa
	San Marino
	São Tomé and Príncipe			Uncertain if members of the legislature of the Autonomous Region of Príncipe have presumed notability.
	Saudi Arabia
	Senegal
	Serbia			Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina and the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo are presumed notable.	[1]
	Seychelles
	Sierra Leone
	Singapore
	Slovakia
	Slovenia
	Solomon Islands
	Somalia	[14][15]		Members of the Parliament of Somaliland and the House of Representatives of Puntland are presumed notable. Members of the legislatures of the four other Federal member states may have presumed notability.	[1]
	South Africa	[16][17]		Members of the provincial legislatures are presumed notable.
	South Sudan			State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
	Spain	[18]		Members of the legislative bodies of the Autonomous communities of Spain are presumed notable. Members of provincial councils do not have presumed notability.	[1] [2] [3]
	Sri Lanka
	Sudan			State legislatures do not yet appear to have been constituted.
	Suriname
	Sweden
	Switzerland	[1]		Members of the Cantonal parliaments are presumed notable.
	Syria
	Tajikistan
	Tanzania			Members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives are presumed notable.
	Thailand
	Timor-Leste
	Togo
	Tonga
	Trinidad and Tobago			Uncertain if members of the Tobago House of Assembly have presumed notability.
	Tunisia
	Turkey
	Turkmenistan
	Tuvalu
	Uganda
	Ukraine			Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea and the State Council of Crimea are presumed notable. Members of the separatist councils of Donetsk and Luhansk pre- and post-annexation may have presumed notability. Members of the oblast councils do not have presumed notability.
	United Arab Emirates			While the Emirates of the United Arab Emirates have subnational bodies akin to those in federal systems, consensus to date is that membership in these bodies does not accord presumed notability.	[1]
	United Kingdom			Members of the devolved legislatures of the United Kingdom are presumed notable. Members of the assemblies of the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories are likely to have presumed notability.
	United States of America			Members of the state legislatures are presumed notable. Members of the legislatures of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa are presumed notable. Members of the Council of the District of Columbia may have presumed notability.	[1] [2] [3] [★4] [▲5] [6] [7] [▲8] [♦9]
	Uruguay
	Uzbekistan			Members of the Supreme Council of Karakalpakstan are presumed notable.
	Vanuatu
	Venezuela			Members of the state legislatures are presumed notable.
	Viet Nam
	Yemen
	Zambia
	Zimbabwe

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★ Indicates an AfD discussion which relates to the status of the subnational jurisdiction, rather than membership in a parliamentary body.
▲ Indicates an AfD discussion relating to a subnational jurisdiction, where presumed notability was not accorded.
♦ Indicates an AfD discussion relating to a subnational jurisdiction with no consensus.
‡ The Holy See and the State of Palestine hold non-member observer state status in the United Nations.

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