Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico

The federal electoral districts of Mexico ( Spanish distritos Electorales Federales de México ) is the 300 constituencies in which Mexico is divided for the purpose of the House of Representatives election. Each constituency sends one delegate in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Union Mexico Congress. A further 200 members are elected by proportional representation.

Constituencies are identified by Roman numerals and by federal entity ( State or Federal District ). The number of constituencies was established in 1979 to 300, as the number of seats was increased in the Chamber of Deputies of 196. The delimitation of constituencies is based on the results of the previous election and census adjustments to the constituency since 1979 took place in the years 1996 and 2005.

Regardless of the population, no state can be represented by less than two constituencies. This is the case with Baja California Sur (population: 512,000 ), Campeche ( population: 755,000 ) and Colima ( population: 568,000 ), so that these states send more senators than representatives to the Congress. The states with the most electoral districts are the state of Mexico ( population: 14 million ), with 40, and Vera Cruz ( population: 7.1 million ), with 21, the capital district, with a population of 8.8 million, has 27 MPs.

On 11 February 2005, the Federal Electoral Institute has formed the constituencies for the elections of 2006 and 2009 in accordance with the following criteria:

• Each district belongs to only one federal entity,
• Balanced distribution of population between the constituencies,
• Presence of the indigenous population,
• Geographical continuity,
• Travel times.

Constituencies

Aguascalientes

Baja California

Baja California Sur

Campeche

Chiapas

Chihuahua

Coahuila

Colima

Distrito Federal ( Mexico City)

Durango

Guanajuato

Guerrero

Hidalgo

Jalisco

México

Michoacán

Morelos

Nayarit

Nuevo León

Oaxaca

Puebla

Querétaro

Quintana Roo

San Luis Potosí

Sinaloa

Sonora

Tabasco

Tamaulipas

Tlaxcala

Veracruz

Yucatán

Zacatecas

• List ( constituencies )
• Policy ( Mexico)