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The Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile ( Spanish : ''Cámara de Diputados)'' 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 . It comprises 120 or its equivalent; and have lived in the corresponding electoral district for at least two years prior to the election. Chile's congressional elections are governed by a unique binomial system that rewards coalition slates. Each coalition can run two candidates for each electoral district's two Chamber seats. Typically, the two largest coalitions in a district divide 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 does the winning coalition gain both seats. The Chamber of Deputies meets in the Chile Congress Building , which was built during the last years of the Pinochet regime and stands in the port city of Valparaíso , some 120 km west of the capital, Santiago . This new building replaced the Old National Congress , located in downtown Santiago. The Chamber of Deputies is currently composed of 65 CPD deputies (20 Christian Democrats , 21 PPD , fifteen Socialists , seven PRSD and two independents), 54 APC deputies (33 UDI , 19 RN and two independents) and one FRI deputee EXTERNAL LINK |
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