Chamber of Deputies (Dominican Republic)

**Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana**
Basic data
Legislative period :	4 years
MPs:	190
Current legislative period
Last choice:	May 15, 2016
	Website
	www.camaradediputados.gob.do

The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) of the Dominican Republic is the lower house in the country's bicameral system .

It consists of 190 MPs (178 MPs for proportional representation of the people, 5 national and 7 Dominican MPs abroad), who are elected for four years according to the majority voting system. The election will take place on the third Sunday in May, along with the presidential and mayoral elections.

The upper house is the Senate ( Senado ) consisting of 32 members .

elections

The last election took place on May 15, 2016. In these, the ruling party Partido de la Liberación Dominicana defended by President Danilo Medina , now together with the alliance partner Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), which achieved an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies in 2006 (as well as in the Senate and now also in the number of mayors). The Partido Revolucionario Moderno, a spin-off from the PRD, took part in the elections for the first time and formed an electoral alliance with the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC).

Political party	1998	2002	2006	2010 ¹	2016
Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD)	49	41	96	97 ²	110 ⁵
Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD)	83	74	60	75 ³	17 ⁶
Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM)	-	-	-	-	44 ⁷
Partido Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC)	17th	35	22nd	11 ⁴	17 ⁸
Alianza País (AlPaís)	0	0	0	0	1 ⁹
Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata Cristiano (PQDC)	0	0	0	0	1 ⁹
Total	149	150	178	183	190

¹On May 20, 2012, together with the presidential election, 7 members of the Dominican Abroad were elected for the first time, all members of the PLD / PRSC alliance: PRSC (2), PLD, Partido Popular Cristiano, Bloque Institucional Social Demócrata, Fuerza Nacional Progresista, Alianza por la Democracia (1 each); the number of MPs rose from 183 to 190

² including Allied MPs: 1 each from the Partido Popular Cristiano, the Bloque Institucional Social Demócrata and the Fuerza Nacional Progresista as well as 3 national MPs (including 1 from the Alianza por la Democracia)

³including allied MPs: 1 each from the Movimiento Independencia, Unidad y Cambio (today: Frente Amplio) and the Partido Movimiento Democratico Alternativo as well as 2 national MPs; In August 2014, 32 MPs left the PRD and joined the newly founded Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM)

^4th allied with the PLD, the alliance received 108 mandates

⁵ including allied MPs: 2 from the Partido Liberal Reformista (PLR), 1 from the Partido Popular Cristiano (PPC), 1 from the Partido Movimiento Democratico Alternativo (MODA) and 1 national and 3 MPs from the Dominican Abroad

^6thallied with the PLD; including 1 national and 2 foreign Dominicans deputy; the alliance thus received 127 mandates

^7th including 1 national (Frente Amplio) and 2 foreign Dominicans

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^8thallied with the PRM, except in the province of San José de Ocoa , where the PRSC received a mandate in alliance with the Bloque Institucional Social Demócrata (BIS), which in turn was allied with the PLD in most of the other provinces; without this mandate, the alliance received 60 mandates

⁹ won by the provision that parties that achieve more than 1% of the vote and do not have a deputy can nominate a national MP