Argentine Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina's parliament. It has 257 seats and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year terms by the people of each district (23 provinces and the Federal Capital) using proportional representation, D'Hondt formula with a 3% of the district registered voters threshold, and the following distribution:

Related Topics:
National Congress - Argentina - Provinces - D'Hondt formula

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• Buenos Aires: 70 deputies
• Capital Federal: 25 deputies
• Catamarca: 5 deputies
• Chaco: 7 deputies
• Chubut: 5 deputies
• Córdoba: 18 deputies
• Corrientes: 7 deputies
• Entre Ríos: 9 deputies
• Formosa: 5 deputies
• Jujuy: 6 deputies
• La Pampa: 5 deputies
• La Rioja: 5 deputies
• Mendoza: 10 deputies
• Misiones: 7 deputies
• Neuquén: 5 deputies
• Río Negro: 5 deputies
• Salta: 7 deputies
• San Juan: 6 deputies
• San Luis: 5 deputies
• Santa Cruz: 5 deputies
• Santa Fe: 19 deputies
• Santiago del Estero: 7 deputies
• Tucumán: 9 deputies
• Tierra del Fuego: 5 deputies

This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the president, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate.

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