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Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic - Definition and Overview
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The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) is the lower house of the Dominican Republic's bicameral National Congress. The upper house is the Senate.

It currently comprises 150 deputies who are elected for four-year terms. Congressional elections are held in even numbered years not divisible by four, when the entire Chamber and Senate are replaced.

Deputies are elected en bloc by provinces, with one deputy per 50,000 inhabitants or fraction in excess of 25,000, and a guaranteed minimum of two per province.

Party strengths in the Chamber of Deputies

The following table shows the composition of the Chamber of Deputies at the start of the most recent legislative periods.

Party 1998 2002
  Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD)
83
72
  Dominican Liberation Party (PLD)
49
41
  Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC)  
17
35
  Christian People's Party (PPC)
-
1
  National Progressive Force (FNP) 
-
1
   Total
149
150


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