Lazio 2 is one of the 29 constituencies ( it, circoscrizioni) represented in the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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, the lower house of the Italian parliament. The constituency currently elects 20
deputies
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. Its boundaries correspond to those of the provinces of
Frosinone
Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the ...
,
Latina,
Rieti
Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabin ...
and
Viterbo
Viterbo (; Viterbese: ; lat-med, Viterbium) is a city and ''comune'' in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early histor ...
, within the
Lazio
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region. The
electoral system
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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.
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.
Members of the Parliament
2018–present
References
{{Chamber of Deputies constituencies in Italy
Chamber of Deputies constituencies in Italy
1993 establishments in Italy
Constituencies established in 1993
Politics of Italy
Politics of Lazio