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The Chamber of Deputies is the name given to the lower house of the bicameral legislatures of the following states:

It is also the name given to the unicameralUnicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. Many countries with unicameral legislatures are unitary states and consider an upper house or second chamber unnecessary. In many instances these states had a second ch parliament of the following countries:

Historically, the Chamber of Deputies (French: Chambre des députés) was the lower house of parliament in the French Third Republic; the name is still informally used for the Assemblée Nationale under the current Fifth Republic. It was also the official description of Dáil Éireann (the Irish lower house of parliament) during the Irish Free State. Other names for the lower houses of bicameral parliaments include House of Commons, House of Representatives and National Assembly.



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