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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 (75)
External support (3)
Opposition (74)
Impeached (3)
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Length of term | 4 years |
| Elections | |
| Open listproportional representation through theD'Hondt method with nothreshold in multi-seat constituencies | |
Last election | 16 November 2025 |
Next election | By 2029 |
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| Chamber of Deputies National Congress of Chile Valparaíso Chile | |
| Website | |
| https://www.camara.cl | |
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TheChamber of Deputies (Spanish:Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados)[b] is the lower house ofChile'sbicameralCongress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's currentconstitution.
Deputies must: be aged at least 21; not be disqualified from voting; have finishedsecondary school or its equivalent; and have lived in the corresponding electoral district for at least two years prior to the election.
Since2017, Chile's congress has been elected throughopen listproportional representation under theD'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'sNational Congress located in the port city ofValparaíso, some 120 km west of the capital,Santiago. The Congress building in Valparaíso replaced theold National Congress, located in downtown Santiago, in 1990
On 11 March 2022, it was agreed that the Presidency of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies would rotate between theParty for Democracy (PPD),Communist Party (PC),Christian Democratic Party (DC),Party of the People (PDG), theBroad Front (FA) and theLiberal Party (PL).[1] Likewise, the first and second vice-presidencies were assigned to people who are members of thePR, FA,PS, PC, DC and PPD.[1]
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