Victorian Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house
Leadership
Speaker	Jenny Lindell, Labor Party since December 19, 2006
Structure
Members	88
Meeting place
Parliament House, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website
www.parliament.vic.gov.au

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.

The Assembly has 88 members, each coming from a single-member electorate. These are commonly known as seats. These are intended to represent approximately the same population in each electorate. Voting is by the preferential system, as with the equivalent federal chamber, the Australian House of Representatives.

Most legislation is initiated in the Legislative Assembly. The party or coalition with the most seats in the lower house is invited by the Governor to form government. The leader of that party subsequently becomes Premier of Victoria, and their senior colleagues become ministers responsible for various portfolios. As Australian political parties traditionally vote along party lines, most legislation introduced by the governing party will pass through the Legislative Assembly.

The current Speaker of the Assembly is Jenny Lindell MLA.

[edit] Current distribution of seats

Party		Seats held	Percentage of Assembly
	Australian Labor Party	55	63
	Liberal Party	23	26
	National Party	9	10
	Independent	1	1
	Total	88	100

[edit] See also

• Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
• List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

[edit] External links

• VLA Hansard
• Assembly Members List

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