Wikidata:WikiProject Parliaments/Legislature Model
In the case of a unicameral legislature (e.g. Parliament of Finland (Q643412)):
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For a legislature with multiple houses, an Item should exist for the legislature as a whole (e.g. Parliament of the United Kingdom (Q11010)), with instance of (P31): bicameral legislature (Q189445), and which then has part(s) (P527) the individual chambers (e.g. House of Commons (Q11005)), which link back in turn with part of (P361). Each should be an instance of lower house (Q375928) or upper house (Q637846) (or a subclass of either), if appropriate.
When adding country (P17) for a legislature, or chamber ensure that the correct country entity is used. This is usually straightforward, but be aware of cases like Denmark (Q35) vs Kingdom of Denmark (Q756617). For subnational legislatures, just copy the country (P17) used by the national level legislature(s).
When adding applies to jurisdiction (P1001) for a subnational legislature this should link to the geographic region/entity to which the legislature applies. For example for the Landtag of Brandenburg (Q521764), the applies to jurisdiction (P1001) would be Brandenburg (Q1208).
The item for the country should link to the legislature using legislative body (P194), for example:
If the legislative house has changed its number of seats over time, you can use start time (P580) and end time (P582) qualifiers on the number of seats (P1342) statement to provide date ranges. However, you may wish to instead use the number of seats (P1342) statements on the legislative terms instead, for historical data. The current seat count statement should have preferred rank.