Apulia | |
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Chamber of Deputies Electoral constituency | |
Region | Apulia |
Electorate | 3,268,164 (2018)[1] |
Major settlements | Bari, Brindisi, Foggia, Lecce, Taranto |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1993 |
Seats | 43 |
Member(s) |
Apulia is one of the 29 constituencies (Italian: circoscrizioni) represented in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian parliament.[2] The constituency currently elects 43 deputies, being the second largest after Emilia-Romagna. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Italian region of Apulia. The electoral system uses a parallel voting system, which act as a mixed system, with 37% of seats allocated using a first-past-the-post electoral system and 61% using a proportional method, with one round of voting.[3]
The constituency was first established by the Mattarella law on 4 August 1993 and later confirmed by the Calderoli law on 21 December 2005 and by the Rosato law on 3 November 2017.