District 7 (Chamber of Deputies of Chile)

District 7
Distrito 7
Electoral District
for the Chamber of Deputies
Location of District 7 within Chile
Commune
RegionValparaíso
Population876,644 (2017)
Electorate812,542 (2021)
Area3,246 km2 (2020)
Current Electoral District
Created2017
Seats8 (2017–present)
Deputies
List

District 7 (Spanish: Distrito 7) is one of the 28 multi-member electoral districts of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress, the national legislature of Chile. The district was created by the 2015 electoral reform and came into being at the following general election in 2017. It consists of the communes of Algarrobo, Cartagena, Casablanca, Concón, Easter Island, El Quisco, El Tabo, Juan Fernández Islands, San Antonio, Santo Domingo, Valparaíso and Viña del Mar in the region of Valparaíso. The district currently elects eight of the 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 general election the district had 812,542 registered electors.