This house, as the Tibetan government-in-exile, would switch to distributing seats by population size.
The Tibetan government-in-exile was established on April 29, 1959, following the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1951. Its parliament consists of 45 democratically elected members. Any person born in Tibet or with at least one parent born in Tibet may vote in elections. Rather than being divided by population size, these seats are distributed systematically to represent traditional regional provinces, religious traditions, and the global diaspora. There are 10 seats for each of the traditional provinces, 2 seats assigned to each of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, 2 seats assigned to the traditional pre-Buddhist faith, and 5 seats to represent the diaspora (with 2 seats for North and South America, 2 seats for Europe and Africa, 1 seat for Australasia and Asia).