Argentine Chamber of Deputies
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The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina's parliament. It has 257 seats and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year terms by the people of each district (23 provinces and the Federal Capital) using proportional representation, D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution:
- Buenos Aires Province: 70 deputies
- Capital Federal: 25 deputies
- Catamarca Province: 5 deputies
- Chaco Province: 7 deputies
- Chubut Province: 5 deputies
- Córdoba Province: 18 deputies
- Corrientes Province: 7 deputies
- Entre Ríos Province: 9 deputies
- Formosa Province: 5 deputies
- Jujuy Province: 6 deputies
- La Pampa Province: 5 deputies
- La Rioja Province: 5 deputies
- Mendoza Province: 10 deputies
- Misiones Province: 7 deputies
- Neuquén Province: 5 deputies
- Río Negro Province: 5 deputies
- Salta Province: 7 deputies
- San Juan Province: 6 deputies
- San Luis Province: 5 deputies
- Santa Cruz Province: 5 deputies
- Santa Fe Province: 19 deputies
- Santiago del Estero Province: 7 deputies
- Tucumán Province: 9 deputies
- Tierra del Fuego Province: 5 deputies
This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the President, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate.
[edit] 2005 election
See List of current Argentine Deputies
| Coalitions and parties | Chamber of Deputies of the Nation: 127 out of 257 seats |
Senate of the Nation: 24 out of 72 seats |
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| Votes | % | Deputies | Votes | % | Senators | |
| Front for Victory (Frente para la Victoria) | 5,071,094 | 29.9 | 50 | 3,572,361 | 45.1 | 14 |
| Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical) | 1,514,653 | 8.9 | 10 | 597,730 | 7.5 | 2 |
| Alternative for a Republic of Equals (Alternativa por una República de Iguales) | 1,227,726 | 7.2 | 8 | 549,208 | 6.9 | - |
| Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista) | 1,142,522 | 6.7 | 9 | 58,485 | 0.7 | 1 |
| Republican Proposal (Propuesta Republicana - PRO) | 1,046,020 | 6.2 | 9 | 492,892 | 6.2 | - |
| Justicialist Front (Frente Justicialista) | 670,309 | 3.9 | 7 | 1,364,880 | 17.2 | 3 |
| Progressive, Civic and Social Front (Frente Progresista Cívico y Social) | 625,335 | 3.7 | 5 | |||
| Alliance Union of Córdoba (Alianza Unión Córdoba) | 530,115 | 3.1 | 4 | |||
| Federalist Unity Party (Partido Unidad Federalista) | 372,843 | 2.2 | 2 | |||
| Alliance New Front (Alianza Frente Nuevo) | 347,412 | 2.0 | 3 | |||
| Front of Everyone (Frente de Todos) | 316,294 | 1.9 | 6 | |||
| Front for the Renewal of Concordia (Frente Renovador de la Concordia) | 189,327 | 1.1 | 2 | 187,255 | 2.4 | 2 |
| Civic Front for Santiago (Frente Cívico por Santiago) | 185,733 | 1.1 | 3 | |||
| Neuquino People's Movement (Movimiento Popular Neuquino) | 85,700 | 0.5 | 2 | |||
| Front of Jujuy (Frente Jujeño) | 78,051 | 1.0 | 1 | |||
| Alliance Front of Production and Labour (Alianza Frente Produccion y Trabajo) | 71,984 | 0.9 | 1 | |||
| Others | 3,647,997 | 21.5 | 7 | 953,739 | 12.0 | - |
| Total (turnout 70.9 % resp. 72.3 %) | 16,973,080 | 127 | 7,926,585 | 24 | ||
| Registered voters | 26,098,546 | 12,081,098 | ||||
| Votes cast | 18,513,717 | 8,730,094 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 1,540,637 | 8.3 | 803,509 | 9.2 | ||
| Source: Adam Carr's Website Be aware that parties operate under various labels and alliances in the provinces. |
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