Chamber of Deputies of Chile
The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputadas y 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.
Chamber of Deputies Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados | |
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54th National Congress | |
Type | |
Type | |
Leadership | |
First Vice-President | |
Second Vice-President | |
Structure | |
Seats | 155 |
Political groups | Government
Chile Vamos (70) Others (1)
Opposition Progressive Convergence (30)[1] Broad Front (17)[1] Unity for Change (13)[1] Others (24)
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Length of term | 4 years |
Elections | |
Proportional representation | |
Last election | 19 November 2017 |
Meeting place | |
Chamber of Deputies National Congress of Chile Valparaíso Chile | |
Website | |
http://www.camara.cl |
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.
Since 2017, Chile's congress has been elected through open list proportional representation.
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.
Political composition (2018-2022)
Parliamentary Group[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | Leader | Chief Whip | Seats[lower-alpha 3] | Seat Share | Political position | Ideology | |
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Chile Vamos | 72 | 46.45% | |||||
National Renewal Committee | Mario Desbordes | Alejandro Santana | 36 | 23.32% | centre-right | conservatism | |
Independent Democratic Union Committee | Javier Macaya | María José Hoffmann | 30 | 19.35% | right-wing | conservatism | |
Political Evolution and Independents Committee | Hernán Larraín Matte | Luciano Cruz-Coke | 6 | 3.87% | centre-right | classical liberalism | |
Unidad Constituyente | 53 | 34.19% | |||||
Socialist Committee | Álvaro Elizalde | Manuel Monsalve | 17 | 10.96% | centre-left | social democracy | |
Party for Democracy Committee | Heraldo Muñoz | Ricardo Celis | 8 | 5.16% | centre-left | social democracy | |
Radical and Independents Committee | Carlos Maldonado | Alexis Sepúlveda | 10 | 6.45% | centre-left | social democracy | |
Christian Democratic Committee | Fuad Chahín | Gabriel Ascencio | 13 | 8.38% | centre | christian democracy | |
Liberal, Socialist and Independents Mixed Committee | Luis Felipe Ramos | Vlado Mirosevic | 5 | 3.22% | centre-left | social-liberalism | |
Broad Front | 14 | 9.03% | |||||
Democratic Revolution, Commons, Social Convergence and Independents Committee | Catalina Pérez | Maite Orsini | 14 | 9.03% | left-wing | democratic socialism | |
Unity for Change | 16 | 10.32% | |||||
Communist Committee | Guillermo Tellier | Daniel Nuñez | 9 | 5.80% | left-wing | communism | |
Social Green Regionalist Federation, Humanist, Greens and Independents Committee | Jaime Mulet | Alejandra Sepúlveda | 7 | 4.51% | left-wing | eco-socialism, regionalism | |
Total | 155 | 100% |
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Deputies (2014-2018)
Region | District | Deputy | Party | |
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Región de Arica y Parinacota (3) | 1 | Vlado Mirosevic Verdugo | PL | |
Nino Baltolu Rasera | UDI | |||
Luis Rocafull López | PS | |||
Región de Tarapacá (3) | 2 | Renzo Trisotti Martínez | UDI | |
Ramón Galleguillos Castillo | RN | |||
Hugo Gutiérrez Gálvez | PC | |||
Región de Antofagasta (5) | 3 | Paulina Núñez Urrutia | RN | |
José Miguel Castro Bascuñán | RN | |||
Marcela Hernando Pérez | PR | |||
Esteban Velásquez Núñez | FREVS | |||
Catalina Pérez Salinas | RD | |||
Región de Atacama (5) | 4 | Daniella Cicardini Milla | PS | |
Juan Santana Castillo | PS | |||
Sofía Cid Versalovic | RN | |||
Nicolás Noman Garrido | UDI | |||
Jaime Mulet Martínez | FREVS | |||
Región de Coquimbo (7) | 5 | Sergio Gahona Salazar | UDI | |
Juan Manuel Fuenzalida Cobo | UDI | |||
Francisco Eguiguren Correa | RN | |||
Pedro Velásquez Seguel | Ind-FREVS | |||
Daniel Núñez Arancibia | PC | |||
Raúl Saldívar Auger | PS | |||
Matías Walker Prieto | DC | |||
Región de Valparaíso (16) | 6 | Andrés Longton Herrera | RN | |
Luis Pardo Sainz | RN | |||
Camila Flores Oporto | RN | |||
Pablo Kast Sommerhoff | Evopoli | |||
Marcelo Schilling Rodríguez | PS | |||
Carolina Marzán Pinto | PPD | |||
Daniel Verdessi Belemmi | DC | |||
Diego Ibáñez Cotroneo | CS | |||
7 | María José Hoffmann Opazo | UDI | ||
Osvaldo Urrutia Soto | UDI | |||
Andrés Celis Montt | RN | |||
Rodrigo González Torres | PPD | |||
Marcelo Díaz Díaz | PS | |||
Víctor Torres Jeldes | DC | |||
Camila Rojas Valderrama | Commons | |||
Jorge Brito Hasbún | RD | |||
Región Metropolitana de Santiago (47) | 8 | Joaquín Lavín León | UDI | |
Patricio Melero Abaroa | UDI | |||
Mario Desbordes Jiménez | RN | |||
Gabriel Silber Romo | DC | |||
Pepe Auth Steward | Ind-PR | |||
Carmen Hertz Cádiz | PC | |||
Claudia Mix Jiménez | Commons | |||
Pablo Vidal Rojas | RD | |||
9 | Karol Cariola Oliva | PC | ||
Boris Barrera Moreno | PC | |||
Érika Olivera de la Fuente | Ind-RN | |||
Jorge Durán Espinoza | RN | |||
Sebastián Keitel Bianchi | Evopoli | |||
Maite Orsini Pascal | RD | |||
Cristina Girardi Lavín | PPD | |||
10 | Giorgio Jackson Drago | RD | ||
Natalia Castillo Muñoz | RD | |||
Gonzalo Winter Etcheberry | CS | |||
Marcela Sabat Fernández | RN | |||
Sebastián Torrealba Alvarado | RN | |||
Jorge Alessandri Vergara | UDI | |||
Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo | Evopoli | |||
Maya Fernández Allende | PS | |||
11 | Gonzalo Fuenzalida Figueroa | RN | ||
Catalina del Real Mihovilovic | RN | |||
Karin Luck Urban | RN | |||
Francisco Undurraga Gazitúa | Evopoli | |||
Guillermo Ramírez Diez | UDI | |||
Tomás Hirsch Goldschmidt | PH | |||
12 | Ximena Ossandón Irarrázabal | RN | ||
Leopoldo Pérez Lahsen | RN | |||
Álvaro Carter Fernández | Ind-UDI | |||
Camila Vallejo Dowling | PC | |||
Amaro Labra Sepúlveda | PC | |||
Pamela Jiles Moreno | PH | |||
Miguel Crispi Serrano | RD | |||
13 | Guillermo Teillier del Valle | PC | ||
Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes | PPD | |||
Eduardo Durán Salinas | RN | |||
Cristhian Moreira Barros | UDI | |||
Gael Yeomans Araya | CS | |||
14 | Raúl Leiva Carvajal | PS | ||
Leonardo Soto Ferrada | PS | |||
Marisela Santibáñez Novoa | Ind.[n 1] | |||
Juan Antonio Coloma Álamos | UDI | |||
Jaime Bellolio Avaria | UDI | |||
Renato Garín González | Ind.[n 2] | |||
Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins (9) | 15 | Javier Macaya Danús | UDI | |
Issa Kort Garriga | UDI | |||
Diego Schalper Sepúlveda | RN | |||
Juan Luis Castro González | PS | |||
Raúl Soto Mardones | DC | |||
16 | Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes | FREVS | ||
Ramón Barros Montero | UDI | |||
Virginia Troncoso Hellman | UDI | |||
Cosme Mellado Pino | PR | |||
Región del Maule (11) | 17 | Celso Morales Muñoz | UDI | |
Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca Ramírez | UDI | |||
Hugo Rey Martínez | RN | |||
Pablo Prieto Lorca | Ind-RN | |||
Pablo Lorenzini Basso | DC | |||
Alexis Sepúlveda Soto | PR | |||
Florcita Alarcón Rojas | PH | |||
18 | Ignacio Urrutia Bonilla | Ind.[n 3] | ||
Rolando Rentería Moller | UDI | |||
Jaime Naranjo Ortiz | PS | |||
Manuel Matta Aragay | DC | |||
Región de Ñuble (5) | 19 | Jorge Sabag Villalobos | DC | |
Frank Sauerbaum Muñoz | RN | |||
Gustavo Sanhueza Dueñas | UDI | |||
Carlos Abel Jarpa Wevar | PR | |||
Loreto Carvajal Ambiado | PPD | |||
Región del Biobío (13) | 20 | Gastón Saavedra Chandía | PS | |
Jaime Tohá González | PS | |||
José Miguel Ortiz Novoa | DC | |||
Enrique van Rysselberghe Herrera | UDI | |||
Sergio Bobadilla Muñoz | UDI | |||
Francesca Muñoz González | RN | |||
Leonidas Romero Sáez | RN | |||
Félix González Gatica | PEV | |||
21 | Iván Norambuena Farías | UDI | ||
Cristóbal Urruticoechea Ríos | RN | |||
José Pérez Arriagada | Ind-PR | |||
Manuel Monsalve Benavides | PS | |||
Joanna Pérez Olea | DC | |||
Región de la Araucanía (11) | 22 | Diego Paulsen Kehr | RN | |
Jorge Rathgeb Schifferli | RN | |||
Mario Venegas Cárdenas | DC | |||
Andrea Parra Sauterel | PPD | |||
23 | René Saffirio Espinoza | Ind. | ||
Andrés Molina Magofke | Evopoli | |||
Sebastián Álvarez Ramírez | Evopoli | |||
René Manuel García | RN | |||
Miguel Mellado Suazo | RN | |||
Ricardo Celis Araya | PPD | |||
Fernando Meza Moncada | Ind-PR | |||
Región de Los Ríos (5) | 24 | Bernardo Berger Fett | RN | |
Gastón von Mühlenbrock Zamora | UDI | |||
Marcos Ilabaca Cerda | PS | |||
Patricio Rosas Barrientos | PS | |||
Iván Flores García | DC | |||
Región de Los Lagos (9) | 25 | Fidel Espinoza Sandoval | PS | |
Emilia Iris Nuyado Ancapichún | PS | |||
Harry Jürgensen Rundshagen | RN | |||
Javier Hernández Hernández | UDI | |||
26 | Alejandro Santana Tirachini | RN | ||
Carlos Kuschel Silva | RN | |||
Jenny Álvarez Vera | PS | |||
Gabriel Ascencio Mansilla | DC | |||
Alejandro Bernales Maldonado | PL | |||
Región de Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (3) | 27 | Miguel Ángel Calisto Águila | DC | |
Aracely Leuquén Uribe | RN | |||
René Alinco Bustos | Ind-PPD | |||
Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena (3) | 28 | Gabriel Boric Font | CS | |
Sandra Amar Mancilla | Ind-UDI | |||
Karim Bianchi Retamales | Ind-PR |
See also
Notes
- Party name and leaders current as of 25 March 2019
- Parliamentary groups does not necessarily represent membership in political parties, but the internal organisation of the congress
- Seat numbers current as of 25 March 2019
References
External links
- Cámara de Diputados de Chile. "Organización y Autoridades Parlamentarias periodo legislativo 2018 - 2022" (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- camara.cl Archived 10 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Comités Parlamentarios