Template:Infobox legislature

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Infobox to be used in articles about a legislature (see Legislature#Lists of titles of legislatures for a list of likely names for bodies this template could be used in) as a whole, or any chamber found within a unicameral, bicameral, tricameral or tetracameral assembly.

Usage

This is a template met to be used in articles referring to legislatures (national, sub-national, federal, local, unicameral, bicameral, each of the chambers (if bicameral) or the whole body) that exist (currently function) or that don't exist (defunct legislative, disbanded ones).

Syntax

name native_name transcription_name
legislature
Type
Type	[[house_type]] of the [[body]]
Houses	houses
Term limits	term_limits
History
Founded	foundation
Disbanded	disbanded
Preceded by	preceded_by
Succeeded by	succeeded_by
New session started	new_session
Leadership
leader1_type	line-height:1.3em
line-height:1.3em	line-height:1.3em
line-height:1.3em	line-height:1.3em
line-height:1.3em	line-height:1.3em
line-height:1.3em	line-height:1.3em
line-height:1.3em	line-height:1.3em
Structure
Seats	seats
[[File:structure1|structure1_res|alt=structure1_alt]]
house1 political groups	political_groups1
[[File:structure2|structure2_res|alt=structure2_alt]]
house2 political groups	political_groups2
house1 committees	committees1
house2 committees	committees2
Joint committees	joint_committees
Length of term	term_length
Authority	authority
Salary	salary
Elections
house1 voting system	voting_system1
house2 voting system	voting_system2
house1 last election	last_election1
house2 last election	last_election2
house1 next election	next_election1
house2 next election	next_election2
Motto
motto
Meeting place
[[File:session_room|session_res|alt=session_alt]]
meeting_place
Website
website
Footnotes
footnotes

{{Infobox legislature
| name               = 
| native_name        = 
| native_name_lang   = 
| transcription_name = 
| legislature        = 
| coa_pic            = 
| coa_caption        = 
| coa_res            = 
| coa_alt            = 
| logo_pic           = 
| logo_caption       = 
| logo_res           = 
| logo_alt           = 
| house_type         = 
| body               = 
| houses             = 
| term_limits        = 
| foundation         = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| disbanded          = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| preceded_by        = 
| succeeded_by       = 
| new_session        = 
| leader1_type       = 
| leader1            = 
| party1             = 
| election1          = 
| leader2_type       = 
| leader2            = 
| party2             = 
| election2          = 
| leader3_type       = 
| leader3            = 
| party3             = 
| election3          = 
| leader4_type       = 
| leader4            = 
| party4             = 
| election4          = 
| leader5_type       = 
| leader5            = 
| party5             = 
| election5          = 
| leader6_type       = 
| leader6            = 
| party6             = 
| election6          = 
| seats              = 
| house1             = 
| house2             = 
| structure1         = 
| structure1_res     = 
| structure1_alt     = 
| structure2         = 
| structure2_res     = 
| structure2_alt     = 
| political_groups1  = 
| political_groups2  = 
| committees1        = 
| committees2        = 
| joint_committees   = 
| voting_system1     = 
| voting_system2     = 
| last_election1     = 
| last_election2     = 
| next_election1     = 
| next_election2     = 
| session_room       = 
| session_res        = 
| session_alt        = 
| meeting_place      = 
| website            = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} -->
| footnotes          = 
| motto              = 
}}

Parameters

The parameters are:

• name - the name of the Parliament/House (e.g. House of Commons (UK); Parliament of Romania).
• native_name - the name of the Parliament/House in the native language. Use {{plainlist}} for more than one native language (e.g. Parlamentul of României).
• native_name_lang - the language of the native name. Use ISO 639-2 code, e.g. "fr" for French. If there is more than one native name, in different languages, enter those names using {{lang}}, instead.
• transcription_name - the name of the Parliament/House in transliteration from the native language alphabet (if different than latin alphabet). Use {{plainlist}} for more than one native language
• legislature - the term of the on-going session (e.g.: "40th Canadian Parliament"; "10th Legislature (of Las Cortes Generales)")
• coa_pic - coat of arms (Optional).
• coa_res - resolution of coat of arms (Optional. Default = 120px - Note: include "px" if selecting this).
• coa_alt - text representation of the coat of arms
• logo - logo (Optional).
• logo_res - resolution of logo (Optional. Default = 120px - Note: include "px" if selecting this).
• logo_alt - text representation of the logo
• house_type - bicameral/unicameral for assembly; upper house/lower house for the houses themselves; unicameral house for assembly with a different name from its legislature.
• body - name of large legislative assembly if a chamber
• houses - names of the houses that make up the assembly; if more than one, separate with <br>.
• foundation - date founded. Use {{Start date}}
• disbanded - date disbanded. Use {{End date}}
• preceded_by - preceding legislature
• succeeded_by - succeeding legislature
• new_session - date of the new session. Use {{Start date}}
• leader1_type - title of a chamber leader (speaker, chairman, president, etc).
• leader1 - leader of the chamber.
• party1 - political party of leader.
• election1 - date that leader was elected.
• leader2_type - idem
• leader2 - idem
• party2 - idem
• election2 - idem
• leader3_type - idem
• leader3 - idem
• party3 - idem
• election4 - idem
• leader4_type - idem
• leader4 - idem
• party4 - idem
• election5 - idem
• leader5_type - idem
• leader5 - idem
• party5 - idem
• election6 - idem
• leader6_type - idem
• leader6 - idem
• party6 - idem
• election6 - idem
• seats - the (total) number of seats in the assembly; if more than one, separate with <br>.
• house1 - name of the upper/lower house
• house2 - name of the lower/upper house
• structure1 - image of the political structure of house1 (optional).
• structure1_res - resolution of the structure1 image
• structure1_alt - text representation of structure1 image
• structure2 - image of the political structure of house2 (optional).
• structure2_res - resolution of the structure2 image
• structure2_alt - text representation of structure2 image
• political_groups1 - list of the political parties/groups represented in house1.
• political_groups2 - list of the political parties/groups represented in house2.
• committees1 - list of the committees in house1.
• committees2 - list of the committees in house2.
• joint_committees - list of the joint committees in house2.
• voting_system1 - the voting system used for the house1.
• voting_system2 - the voting system used for the house2.
• last_election1 - the last election date for the house1.
• last_election2 - the last election date for the house2.
• next_election1 - the next election date for house1.
• next_election2 - the next election date for house2.
• session_room - image of the session room (Optional).
• session_res - resolution of session room (Optional. Default = 200px - Note: include "px" if selecting this).
• session_alt - text representation of image of session room
• meeting_place - the place where it meets: building (room), city (e.g. Palatul Parlamentului, Bucureşti).
• website - the assembly's/house's official website (Optional); use {{URL}}.
• footnotes - any necessary footnotes (Optional).
• motto - Motto.

Microformat

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Subtemplates

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• Use {{URL}} for an organisation's URL.

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• url
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