Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)


The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The upper house of the National Assembly is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. There are no term limits for Deputies; they may be re-elected indefinitely.
In March 2015 a new electoral decree stated that the new Chamber of Deputies have 118 members, and the Senate will retain the 30 members. On 13 March, President Michel Martelly issued a decree that split the Cerca La Source in two constituencies, and therefore increasing the number of deputies up to 119.

Elections history

Candidates from Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party took seventy-three of the then eighty-three seats in the 2000 elections. Following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, an interim government was established. The terms of the Deputies expired during the rule of the interim government and the Chamber remained empty. It was re-established along with the Senate, and elections were scheduled for November 2005. After many delays and missed deadlines, elections were finally held on 21 April 2006. The Deputies commenced meeting in June 2006. The exact makeup of the Chamber remains unknown as the Provisional Electoral Committee has not posted the results. The next Chamber elections were scheduled for 2010. There were new parliamentary elections in 2015–16.

Current composition

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

Le Président de la Chambre / Prezidan Chanm Depite
NameTook officeLeft office
Pierre André? - 18171817 - ?
N.-D. Lafargue? - July 1820July 1820 - ?
Pierre André? - 18201820 - ?
Doizé Pouponneau? - November 1821November 1821 - ?
Caminero? - October 18221825 - ?
Beaubrun Ardouin? - January 1826January 1826 - ?
Franco Travieso? - 18261826 - ?
P. Muzaine? - 18261826 - ?
M. Duval? - 18271827
Jean Benis18271827
Jacques Depa18271827 - ?
M. Druilhet? - 18281828
Doizé Pouponneau18281828
D. Villedautant18281829 - ?
E. Legros? - 18301830
Doizé Pouponneau18301830 - ?
A. Massez? - 18311831 - ?
J. S. Milscent? - 18321832
G. Malval18321832 - ?
J. S. Milscent? - September 1833June 1835 - ?
Phanor Dupin? - October 1839October 1839 - ?
H.-In. Joseph? - 18481848 - ?
Brutus de Jean-Simon? - September 1849September 1849 - ?
Brutus de Jean-Simon? - 18521852 - ?
Jean-François Acloque??
Panayoty? - 18591859 - ?
V. Lizaire? - 18601860 - ?
W. Chanlatte? - September 1860December 1860 - ?
R. A. Deslandes? - July 1862August 1862 - ?
P.-N. Valcin? - 18641864 - ?
P.-N. Valcin? - 18641864 - ?
T. Chalviré? - 18701870 - ?
Jeantel Manigat? - 18701870 - ?
J. Thébaud? - 18741874 - ?
Hannibal Price18761876
Eugène Margron? - August 1877August 1877 - ?
Hannibal Price? - 18781878 - ?
Demesvar Delorme? - 18791879 - ?
Guillaume Manigat? - October 1880October 1880 - ?
François ManigatApril 1881October 1881 - ?
Edmond Paul??
Ripert Honorat? - February 1883February 1883 - ?
Osman Piquant? - August 1884September 1884 - ?
Ducasse? - October 1885October 1885 - ?
Dorvil Théodore? - June 1887June 1887 - ?
Oswald Durand18881888
M. Stewart
President of the constitutional assembly
?1889
Pétion Pierre-André? - September 1891September 1892 - ?
M. Stewart? - September 1893December 1893 - ?
J. M. Grandoit? - July 1894December 1894 - ?
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam? - July 1895 - 1896July 1897 - ?
Camille Saint-Rémy18981898
Henri Prophète18991900
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave? - September 1901September 1901 - ?
Stephen Archer? - February 19041906 - ?
G. Desrosiers19091911
St-Amand Blot? - 19131913 - ?
Denis Saint-Aude? - 19141914 - ?
Annulysse André1915?
J. M. Grandoit? - 19221925
Em. J. Thomas19251925
Edmond Montas19251926
Em. J. Thomas19261927
Charles Bouchereau19271928
Antoine C. Sansaricq19281929
F. Robinson19291929 - ?
Joseph Jolibois19301931
Joseph Loubeau1931?
Denis Saint-Aude
President of the constitutional assembly
? - 19321933 - ?
Edg. Pierre-Louis?1934
Dumarsais Estimé19341935
Louis S. Zéphirin19361939
Edouard Piou19391940 - ?
Th. J. B. Richard? - 19431943 - ?
Hugues Bourjolly? - January 1944January 1944 - ?
Th. J. B. Richard? - 19451945 - ?
Joseph Loubeau? - 19461949
D. Michel19491949 - ?
Adelphin Telson4 April 19501955 - ?
Salnave C. Zamor19561956 - ?
Rameau Estimé? - 19581960 - ?
Luc F. François? - 19611962 - ?
Rameau Estimé19621963
Jean M. Julme? - 19631964 - ?
Ulrick Saint-Louis1971?
Victor Nevers Constant? - 19771981
Jaurès Levêque? - 19831985 - ?
No legislature19861987
Émile Jonassaint
President of the constitutional assembly
? - March 19871988
?January 1988June 1988
No legislatureJune 1988February 1991
Ernst Pedro Casséus199120 August 1991
Pierre Duly Brutus20 August 19911992
Alexandre Médard15 January 19921993 - ?
Frantz Robert Mondé13 January 19941994
Antoine JosephOctober 19941994
Pierre Duly Brutus19941995
Fritz Robert Saint Paul8 November 1995December 1996 -?
Kely Bastien? - January 1997January 1998 - ?
Vasco Thernélan1998January 1999 - ?
Sainvoyis Pascal28 August 20002000
Pierre Paul Cotin? - December 200028 February 2002
Rudy Hériveaux28 February 2002October 2002 - ?
Yves Cristalin? - April 2003January 2004
No legislatureJanuary 2004May 2006
Pierre Eric Jean-JacquesMay 20062009
Levaillant Louis JeuneJanuary 20092011
Sorel Jacinthe20112012
Jean Tholbert Alèxis 20122014
Stevenson Jacques Timoléon20142016
Cholzer Chancy201610 January 2018
Gary Bodeau10 January 2018Incumbent