The Labour Party has not yet decided how it can stop a single-chamber Parliament from abusing its position.

Taken together, women make up 45 percent of the two chambers, just below the 45.3 percent in Sweden's single-chamber Parliament.

New Zealand has a single-chamber parliament, the House of Representatives, which is elected for a three-year term.

Based on Enlightenment ideals, it abolished many rights of the nobility and clergy, and instituted a single-chamber parliament.

Constitutional change in 1953 led to a single-chamber parliament elected by proportional representation, female accession to the Danish throne and Greenland becoming an integral part of Denmark.

Breaking the Communists' hold on power in Mongolia after more than 70 years, the primary opposition coalition captured 50 of 76 seats in the single-chamber Parliament, official election results released today confirmed.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Sulaiman Imanbayev, meanwhile, announced Tuesday that 69 seats in the 75-seat single-chamber Parliament had been confirmed, saying "a new Parliament is born."

After a first round of elections two weeks ago for the 77-seat single-chamber Parliament, there were widespread reports by international and local monitors of efforts to intimidate the press and to force civil servants to campaign for the two government parties.

The Pacific island's 18-member single-chamber parliament voted to remove Mr Pitcher by nine votes to eight and elected Mr Dawido, a minister in Mr Pitcher's government who defected to join the opposition, in his stead.