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In addition, the Smith government sought to strengthen the position of [[White people in Zimbabwe|white minority]] through the adoption of a new constitution, which would replace the two existing non-racial electoral rolls, determined by property qualifications, with separate rolls for white and African voters.
Under the new constitution, white voters would elect 50 members to the [[House of Assembly]], the [[lower house]] of Parliament, while African voters would only elect 8, with an additional 8 seats being indirectly elected to represent chiefs and tribal interests.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=o3R9BgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA304&dq=rhodesian%20constitutional%20referendum%201969%20electoral%20rolls&pg=PA304#v=onepage&q=rhodesian%20constitutional%20referendum%201969%20electoral%20rolls&f=false ''U.D.I: The International Politics of the Rhodesian Rebellion''], Robert C. Good, Princeton University Press, 2015, page 304</ref> The [[Senate]], the indirectly elected new [[upper house]], was to be composed of 23 Senators, of whom 10 were to be elected by white Members of the House of Assembly, 10 were African chiefs, half from [[Mashonaland]] and half from [[Matabeleland]], chosen by an electoral college composed of members of the Council of Chiefs, and three appointed by the President.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qdFGLppsxcEC&lpg=PR20-IA1&ots=BdawG_Uf1T&dq=senate%20rhodesia%20chiefs&pg=PR20-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false ''International
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