Article 56

The Chamber of Deputies shall be elected by universal and direct suffrage. The number of Deputies shall be four hundred, eight of whom shall be elected in the Overseas Constituency. All voters who have attained the age of twenty-five by election day shall be eligible for election to the Chamber of Deputies. Except for those allocated to the Overseas Constituency, seats shall be apportioned among the electoral constituencies by dividing the number of inhabitants of the Republic, according to the most recent general census, by three hundred and ninety-two and distributing the seats in proportion to the population of each constituency on the basis of quotients and highest remainders.