| Chamber of Deputies of Chile Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados | |
|---|---|
| 57th legislative period | |
| Coat of arms of Chile | |
| Type | |
| Type | Lower House of the National Congress of Chile |
| History | |
| Founded | 4 July 1811 (First National Congress) |
| Leadership | |
| President | Jorge Alessandri Vergara, UDI since 11 March 2026 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 155 |
| Political groups | Government (68) Supported by (8)
Opposition (79)
|
| Length of term | Four years |
| Elections | |
| Last election | 16 November 2025 |
| Next election | By 2029 |
| Meeting place | |
| Edificio del Congreso Nacional Valparaíso, Chile | |
| Website | |
| Cámara de Diputadas / Senado | |
The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados)[e] 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.
Eligibility
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.
Electoral system
Since 2017, Chile's congress has been elected through open list proportional representation under the D'Hondt method.
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.
President of the Chamber
On 11 March 2022, it was agreed that the Presidency of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies would rotate between the Party for Democracy (PPD), Communist Party (PC), Christian Democratic Party (DC), Party of the People (PDG), the Broad Front (FA) and the Liberal Party (PL).[1] Likewise, the first and second vice-presidencies were assigned to people who are members of the PR, FA, PS, PC, DC and PPD.[1]
Political composition (2022–2026)
| Parliamentary Group[f][g] | Leader | Seats[h] | Political position | Ideology | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Front | Jaime Sáez Lorena Fries | 23 | Left-wing | Democratic socialism, Progressivism | |
| Independent Democratic Union | Henry Leal Marlene Pérez Felipe Donoso | 21 | Right-wing | Gremialismo, Conservatism, Economic liberalism | |
| National Renewal | Miguel Mellado Carla Morales Ximena Ossandón | 20 | Centre-right to right-wing | Conservatism, Liberal conservatism | |
| Communist, Social Green Regionalist Federation, Humanist Action and independents | Lorena Pizarro Daniela Serrano | 15 | Left-wing to far-left | Communism, Green politics, Universal humanism | |
| Republican Party | Cristián Araya | 13 | Far-right | National conservatism | |
| Socialist | Juan Santana Emilia Nuyado | 12 | Centre-left | Social democracy, Democratic socialism | |
| Christian Social, National Libertarian and independents | Roberto Arroyo | 11 | Far-right | Christian right, Paleolibertarianism I | |
| Radical - Liberal | Luis Malla | 10 | Centre to centre-left | Radicalism, Social liberalism | |
| Christian Democratic and Independents | Héctor Barría | 10 | Centre to centre-left | Christian democracy, Third Way | |
| Democrats, Evópoli, Yellows and independents | Joanna Pérez | 9 | Centre to centre-right | Christian democracy, Christian humanism | |
| Party for Democracy | Héctor Ulloa | 8 | Centre-left | Social democracy, Social liberalism | |
| Independents without a parliamentary group | 3 | ||||
| Total | 155 | ||||
Deputies
2018–2022
2022–2026
See also
- List of legislatures by country
- List of presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
- National Congress of Chile
- Senate of Chile
Notes
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- Republican (31)
- Christian Social (3)
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- UDI (18)
- RN (13)
- Evópoli (2)
- Democrats (1)
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- Broad Front (17)
- Socialist (11)
- Communist (11)
- PPD (9)
- Christian Democratic (8)
- Liberal (3)
- Radical (2)
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- FREVS (2)
- Humanist Action (1)
- In Spanish, the Chamber's name includes both 'Diputadas' (female Deputies) and 'Diputados' (male Deputies), which in English is just translated to the gender-neutral 'Deputies'.
- Party name and leaders current as of 8 July 2024
- Parliamentary Group: internal organisation of the congress; does not necessarily represent membership of political parties
- Seat numbers current as of 4 January 2026
References
- "The PPD Raúl Soto will assume presidency of the Chamber of Deputies". https://elmostrador.cl/. 11 March 2022.