Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)

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Chamber of Deputies Cámara de Diputados
LXV Legislature
Type
Type	Lower house of the Congress of Mexico
Term limits	Renewable once consecutively
History
Founded	October 4, 1824 (1824-10-04)
Leadership
President	Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (MORENA) since September 1, 2021
Structure
Seats	499
Political groups	Government (277)   MORENA (201)   PVEM (43)   PT (33) Opposition (222)   PAN (114)   PRI (71)   MC (23)   PRD (14)
Length of term	3 years
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting 300 Seats elected by first-past-the-post 200 seats elected by largest remainder method
Last election	June 6, 2021 (2021-06-06)
Next election	July 7, 2024 (2024-07-07)
Meeting place
Chamber of Deputies San Lázaro Legislative Building Mexico City Mexico
Website
Official website
Rules
Reglamento de la Cámara de Diputados (Spanish)
Footnotes
http://sitl.diputados.gob.mx/LXV_leg/info_diputados.php

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

History

Bicameral legislature, including the Chamber of Deputies, was established on October 4, 1824. Unicameral Congress was in place from September 7, 1857 to November 13, 1874.

After being drafted, one copy of the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire was given to the Provisional Governmental Board, which was later put on display in the Chamber of Deputies until 1909, when fire destroyed the location.

Composition

The Chamber of Deputies is composed of one federal representative (in Spanish: diputado federal) for every 200,000 citizens. The Chamber has 500 members, elected using the parallel voting system. Elections are every 3 years.

Of these, 300 "majority deputies" are directly elected by plurality from single-member districts, the federal electoral districts (with each state divided into at least two districts). The remaining 200 "party deputies" are assigned through rules of proportional representation in 5 multi-state, 40-seat constituencies. 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 re-election 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 changed with the 2018 elections, and deputies are now permitted to run for re-election once consecutively. A deputy who has served two terms may serve again after sitting out one term. Congressional elections held halfway into the president's six-year mandate are known as mid-term elections.

Last election

2021

Party		District			Proportional			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
bgcolor="Template:National Regeneration Movement/meta/color" |	MORENA–PT–PVEM	12,802,391	26.19	65	21,025,742	42.77	214	279	–
bgcolor="Template:National Action Party (Mexico)/meta/color" |	PAN–PRI–PRD	12,575,879	25.73	63	19,477,887	39.62	153	216	–
bgcolor="Template:National Regeneration Movement/meta/color" |	National Regeneration Movement	6,571,127	13.45	64	16,759,917	34.10	133	197	+8
bgcolor="Template:National Action Party (Mexico)/meta/color" |	National Action Party	3,828,228	7.83	33	8,969,288	18.25	78	111	+28
bgcolor="Template:Institutional Revolutionary Party/meta/color" |	Institutional Revolutionary Party	2,715,123	5.56	11	8,715,899	17.73	58	69	+24
bgcolor="Template:Party of the Democratic Revolution/meta/color" |	Party of the Democratic Revolution	248,505	0.51	0	1,792,700	3.64	17	17	-4
bgcolor="Template:Ecologist Green Party of Mexico/meta/color" |	Ecologist Green Party	992,320	2.03	1	2,670,997	5.43	43	44	+28
bgcolor="Template:Citizens' Movement (Mexico)/meta/color" |	Citizens' Movement	3,430,507	7.02	7	3,449,982	7.02	18	25	-2
bgcolor="Template:Labor Party (Mexico)/meta/color" |	Labor Party	538,832	1.10	0	1,594,828	3.24	38	38	-23
bgcolor="Template:Solidary Encounter Party/meta/color" |	Solidary Encounter Party	1,345,858	2.75	0	1,352,544	2.75	0	0	-8
bgcolor="Template:Progressive Social Networks/meta/color" |	Progressive Social Networks	865,215	1.77	0	868,515	1.77	0	0	0
bgcolor="Template:Force for Mexico/meta/color" |	Force for Mexico	1,211,824	2.48	0	1,217,084	2.48	0	0	0
bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Independents	44,311	0.09	0	44,311	0.09	0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes		1,662,323	3.40	–			–	–	–
Total		48,874,040	100	300		100	200	500	0
Registered voters/turnout				–			–	–	–
Source: INE

^a Of the 210 seats won by the MORENA-PT–PES alliance, 97 were taken by MORENA, 57 by the PT, and 56 by the PES

^b Of the 63 seats won by the PAN–PRD–MC alliance, 37 were taken by the PAN, 17 by the MC, and 9 by the PRD

^c Of the 13 seats won by the PRI–PVEM–PNA alliance, 6 were taken by the PRI, 5 by the PVEM, and 2 by the PNA

Popular Vote - District MORENA   13.44% PAN   7.83% MC   7.01% PRI   5.55% PES   2.75% PVEM   2.03% RSP   1.77% PT   1.10% PRD   0.50% Independents   0.09%

Popular Vote (alliances) - District JHH   26.19% VPM   25.73% Independents   0.09%

See also

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

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)