# National Assembly (Chad)

The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale; Arabic: الجمعية الوطنية) is the lower house of the Parliament of Chad. Deputies of the National Assembly are elected for a five-year term.

## Legislative history

Colonial Chad had four assemblies from 1947 to 1959. They were the Representative Council (1947) and the Territorial and Legislative Assemblies of 1952, 1957 and 1959.
The Representative Council from 1947 to 1952 had 30 members elected for five years. It had administrative and financial powers. It included white French and African councillors. Its speakers were Albert Blanchard from 1947 to 1951 and William Tardrew from 1951 to 1952.
The Territorial Assembly had 45 members first elected in March 1952. The members were conservative right (UDT-RPF) and progressive left (PPT/RDA and Independent Socialist Party of Chad). William Tardrew was the speaker from 1952 to 1957, and Sahoulba Gontchomé from 1957 to 1959. The assembly invested the first Governing Council of Chad in May 1957.
Unicameral Legislative Assembly was established on 31 May 1959. Unicameral National Assembly was the legislature under civilian authoritarian rule of Ngarta Tombalbaye from 1960 to 1975. Multiparty system was abolished in January 1962.
Chad had Provisional Consultative Chambers from 1975 to 1993 under military rule. The assemblies were National Council of Union (1978), the National Consultative Council (1982) and the Provisional Council of the Republic (1991).
Superior Transitional Council had legislative powers from 1993 to 1997, until the elected National Assembly took its place in 1997. The number of members on the National Assembly increased from 125 in 1997 to 155 in 2002 and 188 in 2011. On 20 April 2021, after President Idriss Déby was killed, the National Assembly was dissolved and its functions were assumed by the Transitional Military Council, a junta led by Déby’s son. The National Assembly was replaced by military rule in 2021. National Transitional Council took place in October 2021.
In 2024, the new constitution of Chad provides a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly. The newly elected National Assembly replaced National Transitional Council in February 2025.

## Latest elections (2024)

Seats :
| | Patriotic Salvation Movement | 83 |
| | MPS–RDP | 25 |
| | MPS–RNDP | 18 |
| | National Union for Democracy and Renewal | 10 |
| | MPS–RDP–RNDP | 8 |
| | Union for Renewal and Democracy | 8 |
| | National Rally for Democracy in Chad | 8 |
| | Federation, Action for the Republic | 4 |
| | UNDR–PLD | 2 |
| | Democratic and Socialist Party for Alternation | 2 |
| | Chadian Convention for Peace and Development | 2 |
| | Union for Democracy and the Republic | 2 |
| | ART–CNDS | 1 |
| | MPDT–RDP/R–CNDS | 1 |
| | PPJE–ART–CNDS | 1 |
| | Chadian Democratic Union | 1 |
| | National Action for Development | 1 |
| | New Breath for the Republic | 1 |
| | Rally of People for Democratic Alternation | 1 |
| | Movement of Patriotic Chadians for the Republic | 1 |
| | Democratic Party of the Chadian People | 1 |
| | Union of Democratic Forces/Republican Party | 1 |
| | Union of Chadian Ecologists | 1 |
| | PDI [fr]–RPT | 1 |
| | African Party for Peace and Social Justice | 1 |
| | Party for Unity and Reconstruction | 1 |
| | National Alliance for Democracy and Renewal | 1 |
| | Union for the National Democratic Upsurge | 1 |
| Total | Total | 188 |
| Source: EISA |||