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Santa Cruz's delegation to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia is comprised of four members of the Chamber of Senators and twenty-eight members of the Chamber of Deputies, in addition to one representative before supranational parliamentary organizations, as well as their respective substitutes.

Each department elects four senators at-large to serve five-year terms, chosen through party-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Members of the Chamber of Deputies are also elected to five-year terms: half are apportioned from a slate of party-list candidates using the same system outlined previously, while the other half are directly elected from each of Santa Cruz's fourteen single-member circumscriptions. Additionally, Santa Cruz's minority indigenous peoples are entitled to elect their own representative to the Chamber of Deputies, and each department is also granted one representative before supranational legislatures, apportioned based on the political force that won the most votes that cycle.

Both senators and deputies are elected alongside an accompanying substitute, who may vote in their absence, vote in commissions and committees, and assume their counterpart's seat in the event of a vacancy. As a product of the state-mandated gender quota, all primary and substitute legislators must maintain one-to-one gender parity, meaning every male parliamentarian has a female substitute and vice versa.

The longest-serving of any of Santa Cruz's assemblymen is name, from date to date. The longest-serving senator is name, who served from date to date, and the longest-serving deputy is name, who served from date to date. There have been number people who have represented department in the Legislative Assembly: number in the Chamber of Deputies, number in the Senate, and number in both chambers. The youngest member to represent department was name, who entered office at age number; the eldest member, name, left office at age number.

Senate
Santa Cruz is represented in the Senate by four senators, elected at-large on a closed party list, allocated proportionally using the D'Hondt method. Unlike in the lower chamber, the number of senators representing each department is static, although the base amount was increased from three to four following the enactment of the 2009 Constitution, and, as such, the Senate has had thirty-six members since 2010.

Chamber of Deputies
Santa Cruz is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by twenty-eight deputies: roughly half, thirteen, are apportioned at-large from a closed party list, allocated proportionally using the D'Hondt method, while the other half are directly elected from each of the department's fourteen single-member circumscriptions using a first-past-the-post voting system. (?) Additionally, qualified voters belonging to Santa Cruz's minority Ayoreo, Chiquitano, Guaraní, Guarayo, and Yuracaré indigenous peoples are entitled to elect their own representative from a single at-large special rural native indigenous circumscription.

In Bolivia, 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. Santa Cruz's fourteen circumscriptions were created 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.

1979–1980
The term of office of this legislature was cut short by a coup d'état on 17 July 1980.

1982–1985
The term of office of this legislature was shortened by one year.

1997–2002
First election with direct elections in single-member circumscriptions.

2002–2006
First legislature with five-year terms rather than four. The term of office of this legislature was was shortened by two years.

2006–2010
The term of office of this legislature was shortened by one year.

Members of the Legislative Assembly
https://www.opinion.com.bo/articulo/el-pais/alarcon-congreso-asamblea-legislativa-plurinacional/20091231194255332703.html

2015–2020
The term of office of this legislature was extended by one year.

This legislature saw the introduction of representatives before supranational parliamentary organizations. Each department elects a single supranational representative at-large, allocated based on the regional presidential result in the same manner as senators and party-list deputies. The new delegates superseded and democratized a function historically entrusted to parliament; in prior legislatures, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies had been charged with designating assembly members from among their own ranks to represent the country before international bodies. Although marginally separate from both legislative chambers, the supranational representatives are administratively and financially dependent on the Chamber of Deputies.