Chamber of Deputies of Chile
| Chamber of Deputies of Chile Cámara de Diputados de la República de Chile | |
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| 54th National Congress | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Leadership | |
First Vice-President | |
Second Vice-President | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 120 |
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Political groups |
Government
(New Majority) (67) Independent Democratic Union (29) National Renewal (14) Political Evolution (1) Chile Vamos' Independents (3) Crossbench/Others Independent (2) Amplitude (2) Liberal (1) Social Agrarian Regionalist Independent Movement (1) |
Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
| Binominal System | |
Last election | November 17, 2013 |
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Chamber of Deputies National Congress of Chile Valparaíso Chile | |
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| http://www.camara.cl | |
The Honourable Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) 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.
It comprises 120 members called honorable deputies (H.D.), who are elected to four-year terms, by direct universal suffrage, from 60 two-member electoral districts. 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.
Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates. Each coalition can run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divide 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 does the winning coalition gain both seats.
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.
Political composition (2014-2018)
| Affiliation | Members | % |
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| Chile Vamos (coalition) | 49 | 40.83 |
| Independent Democratic Union | 29 | 24.16 |
| National Renewal | 16 | 13.33 |
| Independent | 4 | 3.33 |
| New Majority (coalition) | 67 | 55.83 |
| Christian Democrat Party | 21 | 17.5 |
| Party for Democracy | 15 | 12.5 |
| Socialist Party | 15 | 12.5 |
| Communist Party | 6 | 5.00 |
| Social Democrat Radical Party | 6 | 5.00 |
| Independent | 4 | 3.33 |
| If You Want It, Chile Changes (coalition) | 1 | 0.83 |
| Liberal Party | 1 | 0.83 |
| Independent deputies | 3 | 2.50 |
| Total | 120 | 100.00 |
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Deputies (2014-2018)
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- ^ Elected as Nueva Mayoría independent.
- ^ Elected as RN, but quit the party in January 2014.
- ^ Elected as Alianza independent.
See also
- List of Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
- National Congress of Chile
- Senate of Chile
- List of legislatures by country
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