Number of Seats (Upper House)

QoG code: ipu_u_s

Number of Seats (Upper House).

Dataset
Inter-Parliamentary Union Data
Type of variable
Discrete
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-26
Last updated by source
2025-09-01

Categories

Political Parties and Elections

Find this variable in

Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original dataset
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 82
Standard time-series 84
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1997-2025

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • France (1963-)
  • Gabon
  • Germany
  • Grenada
  • Haiti
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Madagascar
  • Malaysia (1966-)
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Oman
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Palau
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • St Lucia
  • Sudan (2012-)
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Yemen
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1997 to 2025.