Chamber of Deputies of Chile

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The Chamber of Deputies (Template:Langx)Template:Efn 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.

EligibilityEdit

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 systemEdit

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 ChamberEdit

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).<ref name=vicepresidencies>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Likewise, the first and second vice-presidencies were assigned to people who are members of the PR, FA, PS, PC, DC and PPD.<ref name=vicepresidencies />

Political composition (2022-2026)Edit

Current party representation in the Chamber of Deputies
Parliamentary GroupTemplate:Efn Template:Efn		Leader	SeatsTemplate:Efn	Seat Share	Political position	Ideology
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Broad Front	Camila Rojas	23	14.84%	Left-wing	Democratic socialism, Progressivism
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Independent Democratic Union	Juan Antonio Coloma	22	14.19%	Right-wing	Gremialismo, Conservatism, Economic liberalism
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	National Renewal	Ximena Ossandón	22	14.19%	Centre-right to right-wing	Conservatism, Liberal conservatism
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Radical - Liberal - DC	Luis Malla	14	9.03%	Centre to centre-left	Radicalism, Social liberalism, Christian democracy
	Communist, Social Green Regionalist Federation, Humanist Action and independents	Luis Cuello	14	9.03%	Left-wing to far-left	Communism, Green politics, Universal humanism
	Socialist	Daniel Melo	13	8.39%	Centre-left to left-wing	Social democracy, Democratic socialism
	Republican Party	Stephan Schubert	12	7.74%	Far-right	National conservatism
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Party for Democracy	Jaime Araya	9	5.81%	Centre-left	Social democracy
bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Democrats, Yellows and independents	Joanna Pérez	8	5.16%	Centre to centre-right	Christian democracy
	Christian Social Party and independents	Francesca Muñoz	7	4.52%	Right-wing	Christian right
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Political Evolution	Jorge Guzmán	4	2.58%	Centre-right	Classical liberalism
	Independents Committee	Pamela Jiles	3	1.94%	Left-wing	Left-wing populism
	Independents without a parliamentary group		4	2.58%
Total			155	100%