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The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile (Spanish: Cámara de 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.

It comprises 120 deputies, who are elected to four-year terms, by direct universal suffrage, from 60 two-member electoral districts. 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.

Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates. Each coalition can run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divide 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 does the winning coalition gain both seats.

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.

1 Current political composition
2 Current deputies
3 Notes
4 External link

[edit] Current political composition

Affiliation	Members	%
Concertación (coalition)	58	48.33
Party for Democracy	19	15.83
Christian Democrat Party	16	13.33
Socialist Party	15	12.50
Social Democrat Radical Party	7	5.83
Concertación independent	1	0.83
Alianza (coalition)	54	45.00
Independent Democrat Union	33	27.50
National Renewal	20	16.67
Alianza independent	1	0.83
Independent	8	6.67
Total	120	100.00

Current Chamber of Deputies Composition

Color Key:		= Concertación		= Alianza		= Independent

[edit] Current deputies

Region	District	Deputy	Party
Arica and Parinacota	1	Ximena Valcarce Becerra	RN
Arica and Parinacota	1	Iván Paredes Fierro^[1]	PS
Tarapacá	2	Fulvio Rossi Ciocca	PS
Tarapacá	2	Marta Isasi Barbieri	Ind.
Antofagasta	3	Marcos Espinosa Monardes	PRSD
Antofagasta	3	Felipe Ward Edwards	UDI
Antofagasta	4	Pedro Araya Guerrero	Ind.^[2]
Antofagasta	4	Manuel Rojas Molina	UDI
Atacama	5	René Aedo Ormeño	RN
Atacama	5	Antonio Leal Labrín (President, March 11, 2006-March 20, 2007)	PPD
Atacama	6	Jaime Mulet Martínez	Ind.^[2]
Atacama	6	Alberto Robles Pantoja	PRSD
Coquimbo	7	Mario Bertolino Rendic	RN
Coquimbo	7	Marcelo Díaz Díaz (First Vice-President, March 20, 2007-March 14, 2008)	PS
Coquimbo	8	Francisco Encina Moriamez	PS
Coquimbo	8	Patricio Walker Prieto (President, March 20, 2007-March 14, 2008)	PDC
Coquimbo	9	Adriana Muñoz d'Albora	PPD
Coquimbo	9	Renán Fuentealba Vildósola	PDC
Valparaíso	10	Alfonso Vargas Lyng	RN
Valparaíso	10	Marco Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio	PS
Valparaíso	11	Marcelo Forni Lobos	UDI
Valparaíso	11	Marco Antonio Núñez Lozano	PPD
Valparaíso	12	Amelia Herrera Silva^[1]	RN
Valparaíso	12	Juan Bustos Ramírez (President, March 14, 2008-present)	PS
Valparaíso	13	Joaquín Godoy Ibáñez	RN
Valparaíso	13	Laura Soto González^[1]	PPD
Valparaíso	14	Rodrigo González Torres	PPD
Valparaíso	14	Francisco Chahuán Chahuán	RN
Valparaíso	15	Edmundo Eluchans Urenda	UDI
Valparaíso	15	Samuel Venegas Rubio	PRSD
Santiago	16	Patricio Melero Abaroa	UDI
Santiago	16	Gabriel Silber Romo	PDC
Santiago	17	María Antonieta Saa Díaz	PPD
Santiago	17	Karla Rubilar Barahona	RN
Santiago	18	Guido Girardi Briere	PPD
Santiago	18	Carlos Olivares Zepeda	Ind.^[2]
Santiago	19	Patricio Hales Dib	PPD
Santiago	19	Claudia Nogueira Fernández	UDI
Santiago	20	Roberto Sepúlveda Hermosilla	RN
Santiago	20	Álvaro Escobar Rufatt	Ind.^[3]
Santiago	21	Jorge Burgos Varela (First Vice-President, March 11, 2006-March 20, 2007)	PDC
Santiago	21	Marcela Cubillos Sigall	UDI
Santiago	22	Alberto Cardemil Herrera	Ind.^[4]
Santiago	22	Carolina Tohá Morales	PPD
Santiago	23	Cristián Monckeberg Bruner	RN
Santiago	23	Julio Dittborn Cordua	UDI
Santiago	24	María Angélica Cristi Marfil	UDI
Santiago	24	Enrique Accorsi Opazo	PPD
Santiago	25	Felipe Salaberry Soto	UDI
Santiago	25	Ximena Vidal Lázaro	PPD
Santiago	26	Carlos Montes Cisternas	PS
Santiago	26	Gonzalo Duarte Leiva	PDC
Santiago	27	Iván Moreira Barros	UDI
Santiago	27	Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes	Ind.^[5]
Santiago	28	Jorge Insunza Gregorio de las Heras	PPD
Santiago	28	Darío Paya Mira	UDI
Santiago	29	Isabel Allende Bussi	PS
Santiago	29	Maximiano Errázuriz Eguiguren	RN
Santiago	30	Ramón Farías Ponce	PPD
Santiago	30	José Antonio Kast Rist	UDI

Region	District	Deputy	Party
Santiago	31	Gonzalo Uriarte Herrera	UDI
Santiago	31	Denise Pascal Allende	PS
O'Higgins	32	Alejandro García-Huidobro Sanfuentes	UDI
O'Higgins	32	Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek	Ind.^[6]
O'Higgins	33	Alejandro Sule Fernández	PRSD
O'Higgins	33	Eugenio Bauer Jouanne	UDI
O'Higgins	34	Juan Masferrer Pellizzari	UDI
O'Higgins	34	Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes	Ind.^[2]
O'Higgins	35	Juan Carlos Latorre Carmona	PDC
O'Higgins	35	Ramón Barros Montero	UDI
Maule	36	Roberto León Ramírez	PDC
Maule	36	Sergio Correa de la Cerda	UDI
Maule	37	Germán Verdugo Soto	RN
Maule	37	Sergio Aguiló Melo	PS
Maule	38	Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca Büchi	RN
Maule	38	Pablo Lorenizini Basso	PDC
Maule	39	Osvaldo Palma Flores	RN
Maule	39	Jorge Tarud Daccarett	PPD
Maule	40	Ignacio Urrutia Bonilla	UDI
Maule	40	Guillermo Ceroni Fuentes (First Vice-President, March 14, 2008-present)	PPD
Biobío	41	Carlos Abel Jarpa Wevar	PRSD
Biobío	41	Rosauro Martínez Labbe	RN
Biobío	42	Nicolás Monckeberg Díaz	RN
Biobío	42	Jorge Sabag Villalobos	PDC
Biobío	43	Raúl Súnico Galdames	PS
Biobío	43	Jorge Ulloa Aguillón (Second Vice-President, March 14, 2008-present)	UDI
Biobío	44	José Miguel Ortiz Novoa	PDC
Biobío	44	Andrés Egaña Respaldiza	UDI
Biobío	45	Sergio Bobadilla Muñoz	UDI
Biobío	45	Clemira Pacheco Rivas	PS
Biobío	46	Manuel Monsalve Benavides	PS
Biobío	46	Iván Norambuena Farías	UDI
Biobío	47	Juan Lobos Krause	UDI
Biobío	47	José Pérez Arriagada (Second Vice-President, March 11, 2006-March 20, 2007)	PRSD
Araucanía	48	Gonzalo Arenas Hödar	UDI
Araucanía	48	Mario Venegas Cárdenas	PDC
Araucanía	49	Jaime Quintana Leal	PPD
Araucanía	49	Enrique Estay Peñaloza	UDI
Araucanía	50	Germán Becker Alvear	RN
Araucanía	50	Eduardo Saffirio Suárez	PDC
Araucanía	51	Eugenio Tuma Zedan	PPD
Araucanía	51	Eduardo Díaz del Río	Ind.^[2]
Araucanía	52	Fernando Meza Moncada (Second Vice-President, March 20, 2007-March 14, 2008)	PRSD
Araucanía	52	René Manuel García Gacía	RN
Los Ríos	53	Roberto Delmastro Naso	RN
Los Ríos	53	Alfonso de Urresti Longton	PS
Los Ríos	54	Gastón Von Mühlenbrock Zamora	UDI
Los Ríos	54	Enrique Jaramillo Becker	PPD
Los Lagos	55	Sergio Ojeda Uribe	PDC
Los Lagos	55	Javier Hernández Hernández	UDI
Los Lagos	56	Fidel Espinoza Sandoval	PS
Los Lagos	56	Carlos Recondo Lavanderos	UDI
Los Lagos	57	Marisol Turres Figueroa	UDI
Los Lagos	57	Patricio Vallespín López	PDC
Los Lagos	58	Claudio Alvarado Andrade	UDI
Los Lagos	58	Gabriel Ascencio Mansilla	PDC
Aisén	59	Pablo Galilea Carrillo	RN
Aisén	59	René Alinco Bustos	PPD
Magallanes	60	Carolina Goic Boroevic	PDC
Magallanes	60	Rodrigo Álvarez Zenteno	UDI

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c These deputies have been stripped of their parliamentary immunity and are not allowed to vote.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Elected as PDC, but quit the party in January 2008.
^ Elected as PPD, but quit the party in August 2006.
^ Elected as Alliance for Chile independent.
^ Elected as Concertación independent.
^ Elected as PPD, but quit the party in January 2007 and joined Chile Primero.