The 16th 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 16th was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 2005. It was suspended again in 2017 but was restored in the 2023 redistricting process.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Adolfo Alatriste Cantú of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).
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 restored 16th district is in Puebla's south-east and covers 194 electoral precincts () across 25 of the state's municipalities:
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ajalpan. The district reported a population of 417,829 in the 2020 Census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 62% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.
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