7th Parliament of Zimbabwe
| 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe | |||||||||||
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| Legislative body | Parliament of Zimbabwe | ||||||||||
| Jurisdiction | Zimbabwe | ||||||||||
| Meeting place | Parliament House, Harare | ||||||||||
| Term | 25 August 2008 – 28 June 2013 | ||||||||||
| Election | 2008 Zimbabwean general election | ||||||||||
| Government | Government of National Unity | ||||||||||
| Website | parlzim | ||||||||||
| House of Assembly | |||||||||||
| Members | 210 → 215 | ||||||||||
| Speaker | Lovemore Moyo | ||||||||||
| Deputy Speaker | Nomalanga Khumalo | ||||||||||
| Clerk | Austin Zvoma | ||||||||||
| Party control | MDC-T | ||||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||||
| Members | 93 → 99 | ||||||||||
| President | Edna Madzongwe | ||||||||||
| Deputy President | Naison Ndlovu | ||||||||||
| Clerk | Austin Zvoma | ||||||||||
| Party control | ZANU-PF | ||||||||||
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In Zimbabwe's 2008 general election, 210 members were elected to the House of Assembly – one for each parliamentary constituency. The Constitution of Zimbabwe had been amended in 2007 to increase the number of constituency seats from 120 to 210. The new constituencies were drawn out in the 2007 Delimitation Report.
As part of the election, a new Senate was also elected. 60 members - six for each of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces - were elected for the sixty senatorial constituencies that had been drawn up as part of the 2007 Delimitation Report. 10 senators were Provincial Governors appointed by the President. 16 traditional Chiefs were elected by the Council of Chiefs, while the President and Deputy President of the Council of Chiefs were automatically Senators ex officio. The final five seats in the Senate were made up of Senators directly appointed by the President.
The Zimbabwean Parliament comprises the elected House of Assembly, the Senate and the President of Zimbabwe. The list of new parliamentarians was published in an Extraordinary edition of the Zimbabwe Government Gazette on 12 May 2008.