Eighteenth federal electoral district of Veracruz explained

The eighteenth federal electoral district of Veracruz (Distrito electoral federal 18 de Veracruz) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 19 such districts in the state of Veracruz.

It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period 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 third region.[1] [2]

The 18th district was created in 1978 and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election.

District territory

Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2022 redistricting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections.[3] The reconfigured 18th district covers 25 municipalities in the state's Mountains region:

The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Zongolica.[5]

With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 62% of its population, it is officially classified by the National Electoral Institute (INE) as an indigenous district.[6]

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 18th district comprised 26 municipalities: the same 25 as under the 2022 plan, plus Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc, which the 2022 scheme assigned to the 15th district.[4] Its head town was the city of Zongolica.[7]
2005–2017Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the 18th district had its head town at Zongolica and it comprised 24 municipalities in the same region as the later schemes: Acultzingo, Astacinga, Atlahuilco, Camerino Z. Mendoza, Coetzala, Cuichapa, Cuitláhuac, Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc, Magdalena, Mixtla de Altamirano, Omealca, Rafael Delgado, Los Reyes, San Andrés Tenejapan, Soledad Atzompa, Tehuipango, Tequila, Texhuacan, Tezonapa, Tlaquilpa, Tlilapan, Xoxocotla, Yanga and Zongolica.[8] [9]
1996–2005Under the 1996 districting plan, which assigned Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was moved to Zongolica.[10] [9]
1978–1996The 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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23.[11] The newly created 18th district had its head town at Temapache in the state's northern Huasteca Baja region and it covered the municipalities of Álamo Temapache, Castillo de Teayo and Tihuatlán.[12]

Deputies returned to Congress

Eighteenth federal electoral district of Veracruz! Election !! Deputy !! Party !! Term !! Legislature
1979Noé Ortega Martínez[13] 1979–198251st Congress
1982Silverio Alvarado Alvarado[14] 1982–198552nd Congress
1985Elvira Rebeca Arenas Martínez[15] 1985–198853rd Congress
1988Francisco Sánchez Rodríguez[16] 1988–199154th Congress
1991Juan Bustillos Montalvo[17] 1991–199455th Congress
1994Roberto Álvarez Salgado[18] 1994–199756th Congress
1997Marcelo Cervantes Huerta[19] 1997–200057th Congress
2000Edgar Flores Galván[20] 2000–200358th Congress
2003Mario Zepahua Valencia[21] 2003–200659th Congress
2006Pedro Montalvo Gómez[22]
María Dolores Ortega Tzitzihua[23] 		2006–2009
2009		60th Congress
2009María Isabel Pérez Santos[24] 2009–201261st Congress
2012Tomás López Landero[25] 2012–201562nd Congress
2015Lillián Zepahua García[26] 2015–201863rd Congress
2018[27] 2018–202164th Congress
2021Itzel Alelí Domínguez Zopiyactle[28] 2021–202465th Congress
2024Benito Aguas Atlahua[29] 2024–202766th Congress

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: How Mexico Elects Its Leaders — The Rules . Mexico Solidarity Project . 20 July 2024 . 31 January 2024.
  2. Web site: Circunscripciones . ayuda.ine.mx . . 20 July 2024.
  3. News: De la Rosa . Yared . Nueva distritación electoral le quita diputados a la CDMX y le agrega a Nuevo León . 12 July 2024 . Forbes México . 20 February 2023.
  4. Web site: De Luna . Francisco . Rumbo a 2024: la nueva distritación federal en Veracruz a partir de septiembre . e-consulta.com Veracruz . 12 July 2024 . 1 August 2023.
  5. Web site: Memoria de la Distritación Nacional 2021-2023 . . 270 . 12 July 2024.
  6. News: Molina . Itzel . Arranca proceso electoral 2023-2024 en Veracruz . 7 August 2024 . Diario de Xalapa . 9 November 2023.
  7. Web site: Descriptivo de la distritación federal: Veracruz, marzo 2017 . Cartografía . . March 2017 . 12 July 2024.
  8. Web site: Acuerdo del Consejo General del Instituto Federal Electoral por el que se establece la demarcación territorial de los trescientos distritos electorales federales uninominales . . 16 July 2024 . 2 March 2005.
  9. Web site: Distritación de 1996 de Veracruz . 20 August 2024 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20090411020142/http://www.ife.org.mx/documentos/DISTRITOS/pdf/PLANOS/30_COMP_090205.pdf . 11 April 2009. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans.
  10. Web site: La redistritación electoral mexicana, 1996: Memoria . . 16 July 2024 . 295 . 1997.
  11. Book: González Casanova . Pablo . Pablo González Casanova . Las Elecciones en México: evolución y perspectivas . 1993 . Siglo XXI . 9789682313219 . 3 . 219 . 11 July 2024.
  12. Web site: Veracruz . División del Territorio de la República en 300 Distritos Electorales Uninominales para Elecciones Federales . . 30 June 2024 . 40 . 29 May 1978.
  13. Web site: Legislatura 51 . . 21 July 2024.
  14. Web site: Legislatura 52 . . 21 July 2024.
  15. Web site: Legislatura 53 . . 21 July 2024.
  16. Web site: Legislatura 54 . . 21 July 2024.
  17. Web site: Legislatura 55 . . 21 July 2024.
  18. Web site: Legislatura 56 . . 21 July 2024.
  19. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Marcelo Cervantes Huerta, LVII Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 21 July 2024.
  20. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Edgar Flores Galván, LVIII Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  21. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Mario Alberto Rafael Zepahua Valencia, LIX Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  22. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Pedro Montalvo Gómez, LX Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  23. Web site: Perfil: Dip. María Dolores Ortega Tzitzihua, LX Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  24. Web site: Perfil: Dip. María Isabel Pérez Santos, LXI Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  25. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Tomás López Landero, LXII Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  26. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Lillián Zepahua García, LXIII Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  27. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Bonifacio Aguilar Linda, LXIV Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  28. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Itzel Alelí Domínguez Zopiyactle, LVX Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 17 July 2024.
  29. Web site: Veracruz Distrito 18. Zongolica . Cómputos Distritales 2024 . . 16 July 2024.

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