It is housed at the Bahamian Parliament Building in Nassau, the national capital.

The Assembly has 39 single-member constituencies and it uses the first-past-the-post system for elections.

[3] The first election after the country got independence from the United Kingdom was in 1977, when it had 38 constituencies.

[7] The commission conducts a review of the electoral boundaries every five years[7] and makes recommendations to ensure that there is parity of numbers in each constituency.

[9] During boundary review, the commission tries to keep constituencies roughly the same size while considering other factors like "the needs of sparsely populated areas as well as geographic conditions".