Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Chamber of Deputies Cámara de Diputados | |
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| 56th National Congress | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 155 |
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Political groups | Government (67)
Opposition (70)
Others (18) |
Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
| Open list proportional representation through the D'Hondt method with no threshold in multi-seat constituencies | |
Last election | 21 November 2021 |
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| Chamber of Deputies National Congress of Chile Valparaíso Chile | |
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| http://www.camara.cl | |
The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados)[lower-alpha 1] is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution.
Eligibility
Deputies must: be aged at least 21; not be disqualified from voting; have finished secondary school or its equivalent; and have lived in the corresponding electoral district for at least two years prior to the election.
Electoral system
Since 2017, Chile's congress has been elected through open list proportional representation under the D'Hondt method.
Before 2017, a unique binomial system was used. These system rewards coalition slates. Each coalition could run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divided the seats, one each, among themselves. Only if the leading coalition ticket out-polls the second-place coalition by a margin of more than two-to-one did the winning coalition gain both seats. with seats allocated using the simple quotient. The Chamber of Deputies meets in Chile's National Congress located in the port city of Valparaíso, some 120 km west of the capital, Santiago. The Congress building in Valparaíso replaced the old National Congress, located in downtown Santiago, in 1990
President of the Chamber
On 11 March 2022, it was agreed that the Presidency of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies would rotate between the Party for Democracy (PPD), Communist Party (PC), Christian Democratic Party (DC), Party of the People (PDG), the Broad Front (FA) and the Liberal Party (PL).[1] Likewise, the first and second vice-presidencies were assigned to people who are members of the PR, FA, PS, PC, DC and PPD.[1]
Political composition (2022-2026)
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Deputies
2018-2022
2022-2026
See also
Notes
- In Spanish, the Chamber's name includes both 'Diputadas' (female Deputies) and 'Diputados' (male Deputies), which in English is just translated to the gender-neutral 'Deputies'.
- Party name and leaders current as of 11 August 2023
- Parliamentary Group: internal organisation of the congress; does not necessarily represent membership of political parties
- Seat numbers current as of 11 August 2023
References
External links
- "The PPD Raúl Soto will assume presidency of the Chamber of Deputies". https://elmostrador.cl/. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.