The ninth federal electoral district of Chihuahua (Distrito electoral federal 09 de 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 currently operating in the state of Chihuahua.
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 this district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.[1] [2]
Under the 2022 districting plan, which will be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,[3] the ninth district is located in the south-west of the state. It covers the municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichí, Coronado, Chínipas, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Guadalupe y Calvo, Guazapares, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, López, Maguarichi, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Satevó, El Tule, Urique, Uruachi and Valle de Zaragoza.[4] [5]
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Parral.
Between 2017 and 2022, the district covered the municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Batopilas de Manuel Gómez Morín, Carichí, Coronado, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Guadalupe y Calvo, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, López, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Satevó, El Tule, Urique and Valle de Zaragoza. The head town was at Parral.[6]
Under the 2005 districting scheme, the district covered the state's southern municipalities of Balleza, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichi, Chínipas, Cusihuiriachi, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Gran Morelos, Guadalupe y Calvo, Guazapares, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Maguarichi, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Santa Isabel, Satevó, El Tule, Urique, Uruachi and Valle de Zaragoza. The head town was the city of Parral.[7]
Between 1996 and 2005, the district covered the southern municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Coronado, Guadalupe y Calvo, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Jiménez, López, Matamoros, Rosario, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, El Tule and Valle de Zaragoza. Its head town was the city of Parral.[8]
Between 1979 and 1996, the ninth district was located in the north-west of the state and its head town was the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes. It comprised the municipalities of Ahumada, Ascensión, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Galeana, Guadalupe, Ignacio Zaragoza, Janos, Madera, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Práxedis G. Guerrero.[9]
| 1979 | Rebeca Anchondo Fernández | 51st Congress | 1979–1982 | ||
| 1982 | 52nd Congress | 1982–1985 | |||
| 1985 | Fernando Abarca Fernández | 53rd Congress | 1985–1988 | ||
| 1988 | Rebeca Anchondo Fernández | 54th Congress | 1988–1991 | ||
| 1991 | Luis Carlos Rentería Torres | 55th Congress | 1991–1994 | ||
| 1994 | Sergio Prieto Gamboa | 56th Congress | 1994–1997 | ||
| 1997 | Jesús José Villalobos Sáenz | 57th Congress | 1997–2000 | ||
| 2000 | Manuel Payán Nova | 58th Congress | 2000–2003 | ||
| 2003 | Jesús Aguilar Bueno | 59th Congress | 2003–2006 | ||
| 2006 | César Duarte Jáquez | 60th Congress | 2006–2009 | ||
| 2009 | Luis Carlos Campos Villegas[10] | 61st Congress | 2009–2012 | ||
| 2012 | Karina Velázquez Ramírez[11] | 62nd Congress | 2012–2015 | ||
| 2015 | Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga | 63rd Congress | 2015–2018 | ||
| 2018 | [12] [13] | 64th Congress | 2018–2020 | ||
| 2021 | [14] [15] | 65th Congress | 2021–2024 | ||
| 2024 | Noel Chávez Velázquez[16] | 66th Congress | 2024–2027 |