The 6th 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 of the National Action Party (PAN).
District territory Under the 2023 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 307 electoral precincts () across the north and west of the city of Chihuahua and its surrounding municipality.
Its head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Chihuahua. The district reported a population of 468,869 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 In 2017 to 2022, the 6th district covered part of the west of the city of Chihuahua and the northern portion of the municipality of Chihuahua.
2005–2017 Between 2005 and 2017, the district covered the western portion of the municipality of Chihuahua, including approximately half of the city of Chihuahua. The other half of the city and the rest of the municipality were covered by the 8th district. The head town was the city of Chihuahua. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. Between 1996 and 2005, the 6th district covered the northern part of the municipality of Chihuahua; i.e., it included the part of the city/municipality north of the Río Chuviscar.
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 6th district was located in the eastern central part of the state, centred on the city of Camargo and covering the municipalities of Camargo, Coyame, Delicias, Jiménez, La Cruz, Manuel Benavides, Ojinaga and Saucillo..
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chihuahua's 6th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureNo representative sent1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro1917Vacant1917–191827th Congress1918Manuel Chávez M.1918–192028th Congress1920Alejandro Velázquez López1920–192229th CongressManuel Chávez M.1922–192430th Congress1924José Calles1924–192631st Congress1926Rafael V. Balderrama1926–192832nd Congress1928Práxedes Giner Durán1928–193033rd Congress The sixth district was suspended between 1930 and 196119611961–196445th Congress1964José Martínez Alvídrez1964–196746th Congress1967Armando Bejarano Pedroza1967–197047th Congress19701970–197348th Congress1973Ernesto Villalobos Payán1973–197649th Congress1976José Refugio Mar de la Rosa1976–197950th Congress1979Enrique Sánchez Silva1979–198251st Congress1982Diógenes Bustamante Vela1982–198552nd Congress1985Fernando Baeza MeléndezAlfredo Rohana Estrada1985–19861986–198853rd Congress19881988–1990 1990–199154th Congress1991Jaime Ríos Velasco Grajeda1991–199455th Congress19941994–199756th Congress1997Patricio Martínez GarcíaXóchitl Reyes Castro1997–19981998–200057th Congress2000Francisco Hugo Gutiérrez DávilaLuis Villegas Montes2000–20012001–200358th Congress2003Gustavo Madero Muñoz2003–200659th Congress2006Emilio Flores Domínguez2006–200960th Congress20092009–201261st Congress2012Minerva Castillo Rodríguez2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress2018 2018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress20242024–202766th Congress
Congressional results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1964 to 2021.
Presidential elections + Chihuahua's 6th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Ricardo Anaya Cortés Por México al Frente44.86712024Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz Fuerza y Corazón por México53.9445
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