Tanzania Members of the National Assembly

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Members of the Bunge, the unicameral legislature of the United Republic of Tanzania

Members of the National Assembly (Bunge), the unicameral national legislature of the United Republic of Tanzania. It comprises constituency members, special-seats members, presidential nominees and ex-officio members serving five-year terms.

This dataset records each sitting member of the current Bunge with their name, constituency and political party, sourced from the Bunge's official Polis directory.

Ongoing data source outage
[tz_bunge] Runner failed with ConnectionError — source migrated to parliament.go.tz
Related GitHub issue: opensanctions/opensanctions#5037

Data overview 

Entities:
Total801
Searchable401
Targets400
Entity types:
People400
Positions1
Countries:
Tanzania401
Publisher:Bunge la Tanzania · Tanzania

The Bunge is the unicameral National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania; Polis is its official member and legislative directory.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:polis.bunge.go.tz
Source data:polis.bunge.go.tz · HTML
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-08-06 08:41:55 · v. 20260806084155-hkk
Last success:2026-06-27 11:00:55 · v. 20260627110055-iiy
Last change:
Errors:1 Error

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities302.04 KB
names.txtTarget names text file8.67 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format206.74 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON475.84 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV74.99 KB

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Using the API 

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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Florent Laurent KyomboPersonTanzania
Festo Richard SangaPersonTanzania
Tarimba Gulam AbbasPersonTanzania
Ng'wasi Damas KamaniPersonTanzania
Mwanaisha Ng'anzi UlengePersonTanzania
Khamis Kassim AliPersonTanzania
Condester Michael SichalwePersonTanzania
Salim Alaudin HashamPersonTanzania
Kwagilwa Reuben NhamaniloPersonTanzania
Timotheo Paul MnzavaPersonTanzania
Sylivia Francis SigulaPersonTanzania
Latifa Khamis JuwakaliPersonTanzania
George Natany MalimaPersonTanzania
Anton Albert MwantonaPersonTanzania
Hamad Hassan ChandePersonTanzania
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