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15th federal electoral district of Puebla

The 15th federal electoral district of Puebla () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 16 such districts in the state of Puebla.

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 fourth region.

Suspended in 1930, Puebla's 15th district was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 1996. The restored district returned its first deputy in the 1997 mid-term election

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is María del Rosario Orozco Caballero of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

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, Puebla's congressional seat allocation rose from 15 to 16. The 15th district is in Puebla's south-east and covers 119 electoral precincts () across six of the state's municipalities:

The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Tehuacán. The district reported a population of 415,593 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022

From 2017 to 2022, when Puebla was assigned 15 congressional seats, the district's head town was at Tehuacán and it covered eight municipalities:
*Atexcal, Coyotepec, Ixcaquixtla, Juan N. Méndez, Santiago Miahuatlán, Tehuacán, Tepanco de López and Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez.

2005–2017

Under the 2005 plan, the district was one of 16 in Puebla. Its head town was at Tehuacán and it covered four municipalities:
*Santiago Miahuatlán, Tehuacán, Tepanco de López and Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez.

1996–2005

From 1978 to 1996, Puebla was allocated 14 seats in Congress. Re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in its 1996 districting plan, the 15th district covered 14 municipalities and had its head town at Tehuacán.

Deputies returned to Congress

Presidential elections

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