Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)

Lower house of the legislature of Mexico

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Chamber of Deputies

Cámara de Diputados

LXVI Legislature
Type
Type|

Lower house

of the Congress of Mexico

Term limits

| Up to four consecutive terms; no limit to non-consecutive terms
History
Founded| 4 October 1824 (1824-10-04)
Leadership

President

Sergio Gutiérrez Luna (MORENA)
since 7 October 2024

Structure
Seats| 500

Political groups

| Government (364)

* MORENA (253)
* PVEM (62)
* PT (49)

Opposition (136)

* PAN (71)
* PRI (37)
* MC (27)
* IND (1)

Length of term

| 3 years
Elections

Voting system

| Parallel voting
300 seats elected by first-past-the-post
200 seats elected by proportional representation (largest remainder method)[1]

Last election

| 2 June 2024 (2024-06-02)

Next election

| 6 June 2027 (2027-06-06)
Meeting place
Chamber of Deputies
San Lázaro Legislative Building
Mexico City
Mexico
Website
web.diputados.gob.mx
Footnotes
Deputies information

The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados, pronounced [ˈkamaɾa ðe ðipuˈtaðos]) 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

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A bicameral legislature, including the Chamber of Deputies, was established on 4 October 1824. A unicameral congress was in place from 7 September 1857 to 13 November 1874.[2]

## Composition

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The Chamber of Deputies is composed of one federal deputy (in Spanish: diputado federal) for approximately every 250,000 citizens. The Chamber has 500 members, elected using the parallel voting system. Elections are held every three years.

Of these, 300 "majority deputies" are directly elected by plurality from single-member districts, known as federal electoral districts (with each state divided into at least two districts). The remaining 200 "plurinominal deputies" are assigned through rules of proportional representation in five multi-state, 40-seat electoral regions (circunscripciones). These seats are not tied to districts; rather, they are allocated to the parties based on each party's share of the vote in the corresponding circunscripción. The 200 plurinominal deputies are intended to counterbalance the sectional interests of the district-based deputies. 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 constitutional 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 three times consecutively. A deputy who has served two terms may serve again after sitting out one term.[contradictory] Congressional elections held halfway into the six-year presidential mandate are known as mid-term elections.

The current composition of the Chamber of Deputies is as follows:

Party | Single-member
districts | Proportional
representation | Total seats

|
|
|

MRN

176

253

PAN

PVEM

PRI

No party

Total |

300

200

500

## Last election

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### 2021

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Party  | District  | Proportional  | Total

seats

| +/–

|
|
|
|

Votes  | %  | Seats  | Votes  | %  | Seats
| MORENA–PT–PVEM | 12,802,391  | 26.19  | 65  | 21,025,742  | 42.77  | 214  | 279  | –
| PAN–PRI–PRD | 12,575,879  | 25.73  | 63  | 19,477,887  | 39.62  | 153  | 216  | –
| National Regeneration Movement | 6,571,127  | 13.45  | 64  | 16,759,917  | 34.10  | 133  | 197  | +8
| National Action Party | 3,828,228  | 7.83  | 33  | 8,969,288  | 18.25  | 78  | 111  | +28
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 2,715,123  | 5.56  | 11  | 8,715,899  | 17.73  | 58  | 69  | +24
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 248,505  | 0.51  | 0  | 1,792,700  | 3.64  | 17  | 17  | -4
| Ecologist Green Party | 992,320  | 2.03  | 1  | 2,670,997  | 5.43  | 43  | 44  | +28
| Citizens' Movement | 3,430,507  | 7.02  | 7  | 3,449,982  | 7.02  | 18  | 25  | -2
| Labor Party | 538,832  | 1.10  | 0  | 1,594,828  | 3.24  | 38  | 38  | -23
| Solidarity Encounter Party | 1,345,858  | 2.75  | 0  | 1,352,544  | 2.75  | 0  | 0  | -8
| Force for Mexico | 1,211,824  | 2.48  | 0  | 1,217,084  | 2.48  | 0  | 0  | 0
| Progressive Social Networks | 865,215  | 1.77  | 0  | 868,515  | 1.77  | 0  | 0  | 0
| 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

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* President of the Chamber of Deputies
* Congress of Mexico
* Senate of the Republic
* Politics of Mexico
* Electoral regions of Mexico

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Mexico: Democratization Through Electoral Reform". aceproject.org. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
2. ^ "Cāmara" (PDF). September 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

## External links

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* Official website (in Spanish)

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Congresses of Mexico

Congress of the Union|

* Chamber of Deputies
* Senate

State legislatures|

* Aguascalientes
* Baja California
* Baja California Sur
* Campeche
* Chiapas
* Chihuahua
* Mexico City
* Coahuila
* Colima
* Durango
* Guanajuato
* Guerrero
* Hidalgo
* Jalisco
* Mexico State
* Michoacán
* Morelos
* Nayarit
* Nuevo León
* Oaxaca
* Puebla
* Querétaro
* Quintana Roo
* San Luis Potosí
* Sinaloa
* Sonora
* Tabasco
* Tamaulipas
* Tlaxcala
* Veracruz
* Yucatán
* Zacatecas

* v
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Lower houses of national legislatures

Federal|

* Argentina
* Australia
* Austria
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Brazil
* Canada
* Ethiopia
* Germany
* India
* Malaysia
* Mexico
* Nepal
* Nigeria
* Pakistan
* Russia
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Switzerland
* United States

Unitary|

* Algeria
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Barbados
* Belarus
* Belize
* Bhutan
* Bolivia
* Burundi
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Central African Republic
* Chile
* Colombia
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Republic of the Congo
* Czech Republic
* Dominican Republic
* Egypt
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eswatini
* France
* Gabon
* Grenada
* Haiti
* Indonesia
* Ireland
* Italy
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* Jamaica
* Japan
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* Netherlands
* Oman
* Palau
* Paraguay
* Philippines
* Poland
* Romania
* Rwanda
* Saint Lucia
* Slovenia
* South Africa
* Spain
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United Kingdom
* Uruguay
* Uzbekistan
* Yemen
* Zimbabwe

Dependent and
other territories|

* American Samoa
* Bermuda
* Isle of Man
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Puerto Rico

Non-UN states|

* Somaliland

Defunct|

* Cuba
* Fiji
* Guyana
* Hungary
* Kingdom of Ireland
* Irish Free State
* South Korea
* Nicaragua
* Northern Ireland
* Peru
* Portugal (Kingdom)
* Portugal (Republic)
* Sweden
* Venezuela

Related|

* Bicameralism
* Unicameralism
* Tricameralism
* Multicameralism
* List of abolished lower houses
* List of legislatures by country

* National upper houses
* National bicameral legislatures
* National unicameral legislatures

* v
* t
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Historic center of Mexico City

Zócalo
and immediate vicinity|

* Administrative buildings
* Metropolitan Cathedral
* Cruz de Mañozca
* Fountain to Bartolomé de las Casas
* Monument to Pope John Paul II
* Nacional Monte de Piedad
* National Palace
* Old Portal de Mercaderes
* Templo Mayor

Schools and colleges|

* Academia Mexicana de la Historia
* Academy of San Carlos
* Antigua Escuela de Jurisprudencia
* Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas
* El Colegio Nacional
* University of the Cloister of Sor Juana

Government buildings|

* Library of the Congress of Mexico
* Old Customs Building
* Palace of the Marqués del Apartado
* Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters
* Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation

Religious buildings|

* Church of Jesus Nazareno
* Church of San Felipe Neri "La Profesa"
* Church of San Hipólito
* Church of Santa Inés
* Convent of La Merced
* Convent of San Francisco
* Convent of Santa Inés
* Corpus Christi Church
* Historic Synagogue Justo Sierra 71
* Iglesia de San Bernardo
* La Enseñanza Church
* La Santísima Church
* Nuestra Señora de Loreto Church
* Regina Coeli Convent Church
* Royal Convent of Jesús María and Our Lady of Mercy
* Santa Teresa la Antigua
* Santa Veracruz Monastery
* Santo Domingo
* Templo Expiatorio Nacional de San Felipe de Jesús
* Valvanera Cathedral

Museums|

* Caricature Museum
* Casa Talavera Cultural Center
* Centro Cultural de España
* Colegio de San Ildefonso
* Franz Mayer Museum
* House of the First Print Shop in the Americas
* Interactive Museum of Economics
* José Luis Cuevas Museum
* Museo de Arte Popular
* Museo de Charrería
* Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público
* Museo del Estanquillo
* Museo Mural Diego Rivera
* Museo Nacional de Arte
* Museo Nacional de la Estampa
* Museo Nacional de las Culturas
* Museum of Light
* Museum of Mexico City
* Palace of the Inquisition
* Palacio de Minería
* San Pedro y San Pablo College

Palaces|

* Borda House
* Casa de los Azulejos
* Palace of Iturbide
* Palacio de Bellas Artes
* Palacio de Correos de México
* Palacio de la Autonomía
* Palacio del Marqués del Apartado

Historic houses|

* House of the Count de la Torre Cosío y la Cortina
* House of the Marquis of Uluapa
* Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero
* Saint Augustine House
* Tlaxcala House

Traditional markets|

* Abelardo L. Rodríguez Market
* Ciudadela Market
* La Merced Market
* San Juan Market

Streets|

* Avenida Bucareli
* Avenida Juárez
* Calle de República de Argentina
* Calle de República de Guatemala
* Madero Street

Parks and plazas|

* Alameda Central
* Garden of the Triple Alliance
* Plaza Garibaldi
* Tlaxcoaque

Transportation|

* Mexico City Metrobús Line 4
* Allende metro station
* Bellas Artes metro station
* Hidalgo metro station
* Isabel la Católica metro station
* Merced metro station
* Pino Suárez metro station
* San Juan de Letrán metro station
* Zócalo/Tenochtitlan metro station

Other|

* Barrio Chino
* Chapultepec aqueduct
* Edificio Miguel E. Abed
* Hospital de Jesús Nazareno
* Hospital San Hipólito
* Teatro de la Ciudad
* Teatro Fru Fru
* Torre Latinoamericana

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Czech Republic
* Israel

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