23-2 Number of Deputies to All the Previous Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences
|  |  |  |  |  | (person)
Congress |  |  |  |  |
|  |  | As Percentage to Total Deputies (%)
Year | Total | Deputies from | Minority |  |
| Number of | the Communist | Deputies | Deputies from | Minority
| Deputies | Party of China |  | the Communist | Deputies
|  |  |  | Party of China |
First Congress | 1954 | 198 |  | 19 |  | 9.6
Second Congress | 1959 | 729 | 40 | 61 | 5.5 | 8.4
Third Congress | 1964 | 1071 | 60 | 78 | 5.6 | 7.3
Fourth Congress | 1975 | 1199 | 61 | 81 | 5.1 | 6.8
Fifth Congress | 1978 | 1988 | 76 | 143 | 3.8 | 7.2
Sixth Congress | 1983 | 2039 | 76 | 185 | 3.7 | 9.1
Seventh Congress | 1988 | 2083 | 90 | 225 | 4.3 | 10.8
Eighth Congress | 1993 | 2093 | 91 | 241 | 4.3 | 11.5
Ninth Congress | 1998 | 2196 | 92 | 258 | 4.2 | 11.7
Tenth Congress | 2003 | 2238 | 99 | 103 | 4.4 | 4.6