The current House of Representatives is fourth House of Representatives until Somaliland declaration, where the first House of Representatives was central committee of SNM, second house was selected in Borama in 1993, third house was selected in Hargeisa reconciliation conference on 1997. The fourth House of Representatives is current House which also is first House of Representatives elected through directly elected by secret ballot in a free general election.
House of Representatives was elected on 29th September, 2005, after election race between 246 candidates from three political parties those are UDUB (Former ruling part), Kulmiye (Former opposition and currently ruling part) and UCID (Opposition part), where 82 winners MP are from those three parties two of them are females as follows:
· UDUB (Ruling party in that time) won seats 33 members
· Kulmiye (Current ruling party) won seats 28 members
· UCID (Opposition party) won seats 21 members
82 members
House of Representatives Seats
Somaliland Parliamentary Election 29 September 2005 the total number of parliamentary seats each party received from each region are: