Legislative council
A Legislative Council is the name given to the legislatures, or one of the chambers of the legislature of many nations and colonies.
A member of the Legislative Council is commonly referred to as an MLC.
Unicameral legislatures
- Legislative Council of Brunei (unelected, dissolved but re-established in 2004)
- Legislative Council of Ceylon (from 1831 until it was dissolved in 1931 to form the State Council of Ceylon)
- Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands (reconstituted as a Legislative Assembly as from the beginning of 2009)
- Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1843 - present)
- Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1997-1998)\
- Legislative Council of Macao (Assembleia Legislativa, sometimes translated as Legislative Assembly)
- Federal Legislative Council of Malaya. (1948-1957; replaced by Parliament of Malaya and subsequently in 1963, the Parliament of Malaysia.)
- Legislative Council of Saint Helena
- Legislative Council of Singapore (1946 to 1953, replaced by the Legislative Assembly and finally the Parliament of Singapore)
- Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements (1867 to 1946, replaced by the Legislative Council of Singapore) and Federal Legislative Council of Malaya
- Uganda Legislative Council (became the National Assembly of Uganda in March 1962)
Part of a bicameral legislature
- Australia:
- The New South Wales Legislative Council
- The Queensland Legislative Council (abolished in 1922)
- The South Australian Legislative Council
- The Tasmanian Legislative Council
- The Victorian Legislative Council
- The Western Australian Legislative Council.
- Bermuda: the Bermuda Legislative Council (renamed the Senate in 1980).
- Canada:
- The Legislative Council of Manitoba (abolished in 1876)
- The Legislative Council of New Brunswick (abolished in 1892)
- The Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island (amalgamated into the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 1893.)
- The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (abolished in 1928)
- The Legislative Council of Quebec (abolished in 1968)
- The Legislative Council of Upper Canada (abolished by the Union Act of 1840)
- The Legislative Council of Lower Canada (abolished by the Union Act of 1840)
- The Legislative Council of the Province of Canada (abolished at Confederation)
- India: The Vidhan Parishad in 6 of India's 28 states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh), the Legislative Council serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- Isle of Man: the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.
- Dominion of Newfoundland: the Legislative Council of Newfoundland (dissolved with the creation of the Commission of Government in 1934. Not recreated after Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949)
- New Zealand: the New Zealand Legislative Council (abolished in 1951).
- Formerly New Jersey: under the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution the upper house and New Jersey Supreme Court.