Part of A Bicameral Legislature
- Australia:
- New South Wales Legislative Council
- Queensland Legislative Council (abolished in 1924
- South Australian Legislative Council
- Tasmanian Legislative Council
- Victorian Legislative Council
- Western Australian Legislative Council
- Barbados: Barbadian Legislative Council (renamed the Senate of Barbados in 1964)
- Bermuda: Bermuda Legislative Council (renamed the Senate of Bermuda in 1968)
- Canada:
- Legislative Council of British Columbia (1867–1871)
- Legislative Council of Lower Canada (abolished by the 1840 Union Act)
- Legislative Council of Manitoba (abolished in 1876)
- Legislative Council of New Brunswick (abolished in 1892)
- Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (abolished in 1928)
- Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island (amalgamated into the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 1893)
- Legislative Council of Quebec (abolished in 1968)
- Legislative Council of the Province of Canada (abolished at the Canadian Confederation)
- Legislative Council of Upper Canada (abolished by the 1840 Union Act)
- (Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces not to have had an upper house)
- India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad 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)
- Jamaica: Legislative Council (replaced by Senate of Jamaica in 1962)
- New Zealand: New Zealand Legislative Council (abolished in 1951)
- United States:
- Delaware Legislative Council: the upper house under the Delaware Constitution of 1776 (since 1792, the Delaware State Senate)
- New Jersey Legislative Council: the upper house under the 1776 New Jersey Constitution (since 1845, the New Jersey Senate) and New Jersey Supreme Court
- South Carolina Legislative Council: the upper house under the 1776 South Carolina Constitution (since 1778, the South Carolina Senate)
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