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Jaén (Parliament Of Andalusia Constituency)
Jaén is one of the eight constituencies ( es, circunscripciones) represented in the Parliament of Andalusia, the regional legislature of the Andalusia, Autonomous Community of Andalusia. The constituency currently elects 11 Deputy (legislator), deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish Province of Jaén (Spain), province of Jaén. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a Closed list, closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of three percent. Electoral system The constituency was created as per the Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia, Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia of 1981 and was first contested in the 1982 Andalusian regional election, 1982 regional election. The Statute provided for the eight Provinces of Spain, provinces in Andalusia—Province of Almería, Almería, Province of Cádiz, Cádiz, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Province of Granada, Granada, Province of Huelva, Huelva, Province of Jaén (Spain), Jaén, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Deputies (Spain)
The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elected by constituencies (matching fifty Spanish provinces and two autonomous cities) by closed list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members thereof. It is the analogue to a speaker. In the Congress, MPs from the political parties, or groups of parties, form parliamentary groups. Groups must be formed by at least 15 deputies, but a group can also be formed with only five deputies if the parties got at least 5% of the nationwide vote, or 15% of the votes in the constituencies in which they ran. The deputies belonging to parties who cannot create their own parliamentary group form the Mixed Group. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
