Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia)

Chamber of Deputies Cámara de Diputados
Type
Type	Lower house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
History
Founded	1831
Leadership
President of the Chamber of Deputies	Israel Huaytari, MAS since 8 November 2023
Structure
Seats	130
Political groups	Government (75)   MAS-IPSP (75) Opposition (55)   Civic Community (39)   Creemos (16)
Elections
Voting system	Mixed single vote with seat linkage compensation mixed electoral system (Mixed-member proportional representation) - the same votes are used as votes for president and Senate elections (DSV)
Last election	18 October 2020
Meeting place
Legislative Palace
Website
diputados.bo

The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. The composition and powers of this house are established in the Political Constitution of the State. The session room is located in the Legislative Palace building in Plaza Murillo.

Deputies

Deputies serve five-year terms, and must be aged at least 25 on the day of the election.

Electoral system

The Chamber of Deputies comprises 130 seats (including the seven special seats), elected using a seat linkage based mixed compensatory system using a mixed single vote: 63 deputies are elected to represent single-member electoral districts, 7 of which are Indigenous or Campesino seats elected by the usos y costumbres of minority groups, 60 are elected by closed list party-list proportional representation from party lists on a departmental basis (in districts of varying sizes corresponding to Bolivia's nine departments with a threshold of 3%). The list seats in each region are awarded proportionally based on the vote for the presidential candidates, subtracting the number of single-member districts won. The remaining seven seats are reserved indigenous seats elected by the usos y costumbres, using first-past-the-post voting. A voter can only vote in one of either the normal constituencies or special constituencies.

The election uses the same votes as the votes for the President and the Senate, making it a double (triple) simultaneous vote. Voters may therefore not split their ticket between these elections the same way as they cannot vote for a candidate of a different list in the election of the Chamber (mixed single vote).

Party lists are required to alternate between men and women, and in the single-member districts, men are required to run with a female alternate, and vice versa. At least 50% of the deputies from single-member districts are required to be women.

Elections

2020 election

Main article: 2020 Bolivian general election

Party / coalition		Popular vote	%	MPs
				Seats	+/–
	Movement for Socialism	3,393,978	55.10	75	8
	Civic Community	1,775,943	28.83	39	11
	Creemos	862,184	14.00	16	7
	Front For Victory	95,245	1.55	0
	National Action Party	31,770	0.51	0

Parliamentary parties

Main article: List of political parties in Bolivia