The 5th federal electoral district of Chihuahua () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
District territory Under the 2022 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the district covers 351 electoral precincts () across 14 municipalities in the east of the state: Aldama, Aquiles Serdán, Camargo, Coyame del Sotol, Delicias, La Cruz, Jiménez, Julimes, Manuel Benavides, Meoqui, Ojinaga, Rosales, San Francisco de Conchos and Saucillo.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Delicias. The district reported a population of 421,054 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Chihuahua 6 10 9 9 9 9 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022 the 5th district comprised the same municipalities as in the 2022 plan, with its head town at Delicias.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 5th district was located in the east of the state, but its configuration was slightly different. It covered the municipalities of Aldama, Allende, Aquiles Serdán, Camargo, Coronado, Coyame del Sotol, Delicias, Jiménez, Julimes, La Cruz, López, Manuel Benavides, Meoqui, Ojinaga, Rosales, San Francisco de Conchos and Saucillo. The head town was the city of Delicias. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. Under the 1996 scheme, the 5th district was located in the same region of the state as in later plans, with a slightly different configuration. It covered the municipalities of Aldama, Aquiles Serdán, Camargo, Coyame del Sotol, Delicias, Julimes, La Cruz, Manuel Benavides, Meoqui, Ojinaga, Rosales, San Francisco de Conchos and Saucillo.
1978–1996 The districting scheme in force from 1978 to 1996 was the result of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, Chihuahua's seat allocation rose from six to ten. The 5th district was located in the west of the state, covering a large area of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It was centred on the city of Vicente Guerrero and comprised the municipalities of Bachíniva, Bocoyna, Carichí, Chínipas, Gómez Farías, Guazapares, Guerrero, Maguarichi, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Ocampo, Temósachi and Uruachi..
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chihuahua's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature 19761976–197950th Congress1979Enrique Pérez González1979–198251st Congress1982Samuel Díaz Olguín1982–198552nd Congress19851985–198853rd Congress1988Jorge Esteban Sandoval1988–199154th Congress19911991–199455th Congress1994Saúl González Herrera1994–199756th Congress1997Ignacio Arrieta Aragón1997–200057th Congress2000César Reyes Roel2000–200358th Congress2003Fernando Álvarez Monje2003–200659th Congress2006Felipe González Ruiz2006–200960th Congress2009Guillermo Márquez Lizalde2009–201261st Congress2012Abraham Montes Alvarado2012–201562nd Congress2015Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress2021Salvador Alcántar Ortega2021–20222022–202365th Congress2024Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega2024–202766th Congress
Congressional results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1964 to 2021.
Presidential elections + Chihuahua's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 42.21482024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 45.2436
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