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The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: Cámara de Diputados) was the lower house of Venezuela's legislative under its 1961 constitution; the Venezuelan Senate was the upper house. Under the 1999 constitution, the bicameral system was replaced by the unicameral National Assembly of Venezuela.

At the Venezuelan parliamentary election, 1993, the Chamber saw the introduction of a mixed member proportional representation system,[1] modelled on the German system, with some variations.[2] This replaced the previous "closed-list proportional representation system [which had] led to an extremely party-centered system."[3] The traditionally dominant Democratic Action and COPEI "supported it because it looked the most like the system under which they had prospered".[1]

"Seats for the Chamber of Deputies were allocated to each state on the basis of its population. Since 1970 a number of citizens equal to 0.55% of the population is entitled to a deputy, but since 1993 no state can have fewer than three deputies. A quota for additional seats in the Chamber of Deputies is calculated by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of deputies determined by the size of the population. The number of votes received by each party nationally for deputies is divided by this result, and the difference between the seats already won and this final result is the number of additional seats awarded to the party. As in the Senate, there has always been a limit to the total number of additional seats any given party can receive. (Since 1980 no party has been allowed more than five additional seats in the Chamber of Deputies.)"[4]

At the Chamber's last election in 1998, it had 207 members.

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

[5]

President Tenure
Rafael Caldera 1959-1962
Manuel Vicente Ledezma 1962
Ignacio Luis Arcaya 1962-1964
Héctor Santaella 1964-1965
Alirio Ugarte Pelayo 1965-1966
Dionisio López Orihuela 1966-1967
Enrique Betancourt y Galindez 1967-1968
César Rondón Lovera 1968-1969
Jorge Dáger 1969-1970
Antonio Léidenz 1970-1974
Gonzalo Ramírez Cubillán 1974-1975
Oswaldo Álvarez Paz 1975-1979
Carlos Canache Mata 1979-1982
Armando Sánchez Bueno 1982-1983
Leonardo Ferrer 1984-1987
José Rodríguez Iturbe[6] 1987-1990
Luis Enrique Oberto 1990-1994
Carmelo Lauría 1994-1996
Ramón Guillermo Aveledo 1996-1998
Ixora Rojas 1998-1999
Henrique Capriles 1999

References

  1. ^ a b Crisp, Brian F. and Rey, Juan Carlos (2003), "The Sources of Electoral Reform in Venezuela", in Shugart, Matthew Soberg, and Martin P. Wattenberg, Mixed-Member Electoral Systems - The Best of Both Worlds?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. pp. 173-194(22)
  2. ^ Crisp and Rey(2003:189)
  3. ^ Crisp and Rey (2003: 192)
  4. ^ Crisp and Rey(2003:175)
  5. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=TBMWAQAAIAAJ
  6. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=A_prAAAAMAAJ

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