Tanzania: Women's representation in the National Assembly

Updated May 2008

Year Women representatives Total Seats % total seats
Constituencies Women' seats Total women
2005 22 75 97 307 31.60
2000 12 48 60 279 21.51
1995 8 37 45 269 16.73

Table note

Total seats = Total constituency seats + Women's seats (ie House of Represntatives members and Attorney General excluded)

Table sources

2005
NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION 2006 The Report of the National Electoral Commission on the 2005 Presidential, Parliamentary and Councillors' Elections, 8, 31-33.
EISA 2006 Election Observer Mission Report Tanzania Presidential, National Assembly and Local Government Elections, 14 December 2005 [PDF document], 37.

2000
NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION 2001 The Report of the National Electoral Commission on the 2000 Presidential, Parliamentary and Councillors' Elections, 74, 76.

1995
MEENA, R 1997 "Gender Issues in the 1995 General Elections in Tanzania" IN Mushi, SS & Mukandala RS (eds) Multiparty Democracy in Transition: Tanzania's 1995 General Elections, Tanzania Election Monitoring Committee.
NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION 1997 The Report of the National Electoral Commission on the 1995 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, 69.