Chamber of Deputies of Chile

Chamber of Deputies

Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados
Chamber of Deputies ; Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados
54th National Congress
Type
Type	Lower House of the National Congress of Chile
Leadership
President	Diego Paulsen, RN ; since 19 March 2019
First Vice-President	Francisco Undurraga, Evopoli ; since 19 March 2019
Second Vice-President	Rodrigo González Torres, PPD ; since 19 March 2019
Structure
Seats	155
Political groups	Government (72) Chile Vamos (69) RN (31); UDI (26); EVÓPOLI (6); CV Independent (6); Others (3) PRep (3); Opposition (72) Constituent Unity (46) Progressive Convergence (30) PS (17); PPD (8); PR (5); ; DC (12) New Deal (4); ; PL (2); NT Independent (2); Apruebo Dignidad (26) Broad Front (13) RD (6); CS (4); Commons (2); UNIR (1); ; Unity for Change (13) PCCh (9); FREVS (3); ; Others (11) PH (1); PEV (1); Independents (9);
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Voting system	Proportional representation
Last election	19 November 2017
Meeting place
	Chamber of Deputies; National Congress of Chile; Valparaíso; Chile
Website
	http://www.camara.cl

Coordinates: 33°02′52″S 71°36′21″W / 33.04778°S 71.60583°W / -33.04778; -71.60583

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.

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)[]

Current party representation in the Chamber of Deputies^[2]
Parliamentary Group^[a]^[b]		Leader	Chief Whip	Seats^[c]	Seat Share	Political position	Ideology
Chile Vamos				72	46.45%
	National Renewal Committee	Mario Desbordes	Alejandro Santana	36	23.32%	centre-right to right-wing	Conservatism
	Independent Democratic Union Committee	Javier Macaya	María José Hoffmann	30	19.35%	right-wing	Social conservatism, Gremialism, Nationalism
	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, Social liberalism
	Radical and Independents Committee	Carlos Maldonado	Alexis Sepúlveda	10	6.45%	centre-left to centre	Social democracy, Third Way, Secularism
	Christian Democratic Committee	Fuad Chahín	Gabriel Ascencio	13	8.38%	centre	Christian democracy, Third Way
	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%	centre-left to 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%

Deputies (2014-2018)[]

Region	District	Deputy	Party
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
(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
(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
(3)	27	Miguel Ángel Calisto Águila	DC
			RN
		René Alinco Bustos	Ind-PPD
(3)	28	Gabriel Boric Font	CS
		Sandra Amar Mancilla	Ind-UDI
		Karim Bianchi Retamales	Ind-PR

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[]

^ Elected as deputy for PRO, resigned her party on 19 de March 2019.
^ Elected as deputy for RD, resigned his party on 5 January 2019.
^ Elected as deputy for UDI, resigned his party on 17 December 2018.

External links[]

Official website

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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

[3] Party name and leaders current as of 25 March 2019

[4] Parliamentary groups does not necessarily represent membership in political parties, but the internal organisation of the congress

[5] Seat numbers current as of 25 March 2019

[marisela-6] Elected as deputy for PRO, resigned her party on 19 de March 2019.

[garin-7] Elected as deputy for RD, resigned his party on 5 January 2019.

[urrutia-8] Elected as deputy for UDI, resigned his party on 17 December 2018.

[Diputados-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cámara de Diputados de Chile. "Organización y Autoridades Parlamentarias periodo legislativo 2018 - 2022" (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 August 2019.

[2] ra.cl Archived 10 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Comités Parlamentarios

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