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Chamber of Senators
Pando is represented in the Chamber of Senators by four voting members and their substitutes, elected at-large on a closed party list, allocated proportionally using the D'Hondt method. Senators serve a single, five-year term and may seek indefinite reelection. In contrast to the lower chamber, the number of senators representing each department is static, although the base amount was raised from three to four following the enactment of the 2009 Constitution. As such, the Senate has had thirty-six total members since 2010.

Chamber of Deputies
Pando is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by five voting members and their substitutes: roughly half, two, are apportioned at-large from a closed party list, allocated proportionally using the D'Hondt method; another two are directly elected from each of the department's single-member constituencies – termed circumscriptions – using a first-past-the-post voting system. (?) Additionally, qualified voters belonging to Pando's minority Ese Ejja, Machineri, Pacahuara, Tacana, and Yaminawá indigenous peoples are entitled to elect their own representative from a single at-large special rural native indigenous circumscription.

Each department also elects a single representative before supranational parliamentary organizations at-large, allocated based on the regional presidential result in the same manner as senators and party-list deputies. Although marginally separate from both legislative chambers, supranational representatives are administratively and financially dependent on the Chamber of Deputies.

The Constitution of Bolivia establishes a principle of equity in the redistribution of seats, which, in practice, grants a minimum number of four seats to the six departments with the lowest population and level of economic development – department included. As the department with the lowest score on the Human Development Index, Potosí's minimum seat count has been raised from four to five. As with senators, deputies serve a single, five-year term and may seek indefinite reelection.

Constituency boundaries are determined by the Plurinational Electoral Organ, an independent body that periodically rearticulates the size of each circumscription based on the most recent census data; these changes must be approved by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. Department's x circumscriptions were delimited based on population data from the 2012 census and were first contested in the 2014 general election. The department has x urban districts and x rural districts. Described districts.