At Stake in this Election:        

• 27 out of 50 seats in the Senate of the Republic of Chile (Senado) 

Government Structure: 

• Chief of State: President Sebastián PIÑERA (since 11 March 2018) 
• Head of Government: President Sebastián PIÑERA (since 11 March 2018) 
• Assembly: The National Congress of Chile (Congreso Nacional de Chile) is a bicameral legislature consisting of a lower house, the 155-member Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados), and an upper house, the 50-member Senate (Senado).

Electoral System: 

• The President of Chile is elected to a four-year term using a two-round system in which the winning candidate must secure an absolute majority to win. [1]
• The Chamber of Deputies consists of 155 directly elected seats using a party list proportional representation system and D’Hondt coefficient, in which members serve four-year terms. Deputies run for office in one of 28 multi-member electoral districts ranging from three to eight seats each. [2]
• The Senate consists of 50 directly elected seats using a party list proportional representation system and D’Hondt coefficient, in which members serve eight-year terms. Senators runs for office in one of fifteen multi-member electoral districts ranging from two to five seats each. [3] 

Last Election: 

• General elections were last held in Chile on 19 November 2017. 

Main Parties in this Election: [4]

• Coalition: Chile We Can Do More (ChP+) / Chile Podemos Más (formerly Chile Vamos)
  • ​Leader: Sebastián SICHEL 
  • Seats won in last election: 12 
• ​​Party: Party of the People (PDG) / Partido de la Gente 
  • Leader: Franco PARISI 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Coalition: New Social Pact (NPS) / Nuevo Pacto Social 
  • Leader: Yasna PROVOSTE 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Party: Green Ecologist Party (PEV) / Partido Ecologista Verde 
  • Leader: Félix GONZÁLEZ GATICA 
  • Seats won in last election: 1* 
• Party: Dignity Now (DA) / Dignidad Ahora 
  • Leaders: Pamela JILES and Guillermo GONZÁLEZ 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Coalition: Christian Social Front (FSC) / Frente Social Cristiano 
  • Leader: José Antonio KAST 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Coalition: Approve Dignity (AD) / Apruebo Dignidad 
  • Leader: Gabriel BORIC 
  • Seats won in last election: New 
• Coalition: United Independents (IU) / Independientes Unidos 
  • Leaders: Cristián CONTRERAS RADOVIC and René RUBESKA 
  • Seats won in last election: New 

Population and Registered Voters: 

• Population: 19,426,591 (December 2021 est.) [5]
• Registered Voters: 14,900,189 (February 2021) [6]

Gender Data: 

• Female Population: 9,822,077 [7]
• Is Chile a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980) [8]  
• Has Chile ratified CEDAW: Yes (7 December1989) [9]
• Gender Quota: Yes. The number of male or female legislative candidates cannot surpass 60 percent of a party’s total number of candidates. [10] 
• Female candidates in this election: N/A 
• Number of Female Legislators: 12 [11]  
• Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 43 at 0.851 (2020) [12] 
• Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Medium [13] 

Disability Data: 

• Is Chile a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007) [14]
• Has Chile ratified CRPD: Yes (29 July 2008) [15] 
• Population with a disability: 2,626,239 [16]

[1] https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/chile/government

[2] https://www.bcn.cl/leyfacil/recurso/nuevo-sistema-electoral-para-elecciones-parlamentarias-%28fin-del-sistema-binominal%29

[3] https://www.bcn.cl/leyfacil/recurso/nuevo-sistema-electoral-para-elecciones-parlamentarias-%28fin-del-sistema-binominal%29

[4] https://www.servelelecciones.cl/

[5] https://countrymeters.info/en/Chile

[6] https://oficial.servel.cl/padron-electoral-por-sexo-y-region-elecciones-abril-2021/

[7] https://countrymeters.info/en/Chile

[8] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en

[9] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en

[10] https://www.bcn.cl/leyfacil/recurso/nuevo-sistema-electoral-para-elecciones-parlamentarias-%28fin-del-sistema-binominal%29

[11] https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/country-view/79/35 

[12] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/CHL

[13] https://www.genderindex.org/country-profiles/

[14] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN

[15] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN

[16] http://www.electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/cl/all/