Apulia (Chamber of Deputies constituency)

Apulia is one of the 29 constituencies (Italian: circoscrizioni) represented in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian parliament. 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.

Apulia
Chamber of Deputies
Electoral constituency
RegionApulia
Electorate3,268,164 (2018)
Major settlementsBari, Brindisi, Foggia, Lecce, Taranto
Current constituency
Created1993
Seats43
Member(s)
  •   M5S (29)
  •   FI (6)
  •   PD (4)
  •   Lega (2)
  •   FdI (1)
  •   LeU (1)

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.

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