Membership of the Congress of Deputies

1. The Congress consists of three-hundred fifty members (diputados).

2. Each province shall elect a minimum of two members, each of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla being represented by one member.

3. The other two-hundred and forty-eight members shall be distributed among the provinces proportionally to their population, according to the following method:

a) An allotment quota shall be obtained by dividing the total population of peninsular and insular provinces into two-hundred and forty-eight.

b) Each province shall be allotted the number of members in round figures resulting from  division of its population by said quota.

c) The rest shall be allotted by assigning one number of each of the provinces whose quotient, as obtained according to the foregoing paragraph, has a bigger decimal fraction.

4. The Decree calling for the election shall specify the number of members to be elected in each constituency, according to this Section.