Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)

Chamber of Deputies Cámara de Diputados
LXIII Legislature
Type
Type	Lower house of the Congress of Mexico
History
Founded	September 28, 1821 (1821-09-28)
Leadership
President of the Chamber of Deputies[1]	José de Jesús Zambrano Grijalva (PRD) Since September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01)
Structure
Seats	500 members (288 men and 211 women)[2]
Political groups	Government coalition (250)      Institutional Revolutionary Party (208)      Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (42) Opposition parties (85)      Party of the Democratic Revolution (60)      Citizens' Movement (25) Non-aligned (165)      National Action Party (109)      National Regeneration Movement (36)      New Alliance Party (11)      Social Encounter Party (8)      Independent (1)
Elections
Last election	June 7, 2015
Meeting place
Chamber of Deputies San Lázaro Legislative Palace Mexico City Mexico
Website
Official Website of the Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Congress of the Union, the bicameral legislature of Mexico. The structure and responsibilities of both chambers of Congress are defined in Articles 50 to 70 of the current constitution.

Composition

The Chamber of Deputies is composed of one federal representative (in Spanish: diputado federal) for every 200,000 citizens. Currently (as of 2006 election) there are 500 deputies.

Of these, 300 "majority deputies" are directly elected by plurality from single-member districts, the federal electoral districts). The remaining 200 "party deputies" are assigned through rules of proportional representation. These seats are not tied to districts; rather, they are allocated to parties based on each party's share of the national vote. The 200 party deputies are intended to counterbalance the sectional interests of the district-based representatives. Substitutes are elected at the same time as each deputy, so special elections are rare.

From 1917 to 2015, deputies were barred from serving consecutive terms in accordance with the Constitution's ban on immediate reelection to the legislature. Thus, the Chamber of Deputies was one of the few legislative bodies in the world that was completely renewed at an election. However, this will change at the 2018 elections; deputies are now permitted to run for reelection. Congressional elections held halfway into the president's six year mandate are known as mid-term elections.

Current Representatives

See Main article: LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress

Last election

Party	District			Proportional			Total seats	+/–
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Institutional Revolutionary Party	11,604,665	34.24	156	11,638,556	29.18	47	203	9
National Action Party	8,346,846	22.06	55	8,379,270	21.01	53	108	6
Party of the Democratic Revolution	1,941,105	5.13	28	4,335,731	10.87	28	56	48
National Regeneration Movement	3,327,793	8.80	14	3,346,303	8.39	21	35	35
Ecologist Green Party	385,433	1.02	29	2,758,138	6.91	18	47	18
Citizens' Movement	2,421,164	6.40	10	2,431,908	6.09	16	26	10
New Alliance Party	1,480,090	3.91	1	1,486,935	3.72	9	10	0
Social Encounter Party	1,319,203	3.49	0	1,325,335	3.32	8	8	8
Labor Party	665,597	1.76	0	1,134,439	2.84	0	6	9
Humanist Party	852,925	2.25	0	856,887	2.14	0	0	0
Independents	225,500	0.60	1	225,500	0.56	0	1	1
Unregistered candidates	51,886	0.14	0	52,384	0.13	0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	1,892,038	–	–	1,900,860	–	–	–	–
Total	39,722,969	100	300	39,782,246	100	200	500	0
Registered voters/turnout			–			–	–	–
Source: INE

See also

• President of the Chamber of Deputies Directive Board
• Congress of Mexico
• Senate of Mexico
• Politics of Mexico

References

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)

Coordinates: 19°25′48″N 99°07′04″W / 19.43000°N 99.11778°W / 19.43000; -99.11778