The 19th federal electoral district of Jalisco () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 20 such districts in the state of Jalisco.
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.
Suspended in 1930, the 19th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. The restored district returned its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Clara Cárdenas Galván 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, Jalisco's 19th district covers the south of the state, bordering Colima and Michoacán and the southern shore of Lake Chapala. It comprises 179 electoral precincts () across 20 of the state's 125 municipalities:
- Atoyac, Concepción de Buenos Aires, Gómez FarÃÂas, Jilotlán de los Dolores, Santa MarÃÂa del Oro, La Manzanilla de La Paz, Mazamitla, Pihuamo, Quitupan, Sayula, Tamazula de Gordiano, Tecalitlán, Teocuitatlán de Corona, Tizapán el Alto, Tonila, Tuxcueca, Tuxpan, Valle de Juárez, Zapotiltic and Zapotlán el Grande.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Guzmán, the municipal seat of Zapotlán el Grande. The district reported a population of 413,620 in the 2020 Census.
Previous districting schemes
2017âÂÂ2022
Jalisco regained its 20th congressional seat in the 2017 redistricting process. The 19th district's head town was at Ciudad Guzmán and it covered 18 municipalities:
*Amacueca, Atoyac, Gómez FarÃÂas, Jilotlán de los Dolores, Santa MarÃÂa del Oro, Pihuamo, Quitupan, San Gabriel, Sayula, Tamazula de Gordiano, Tapalpa, Tecalitlán, Techaluta de Montenegro, Tonila, Tuxpan, Valle de Juárez, Zapotiltic and Zapotlán el Grande.
2005âÂÂ2017
Under the 2005 plan, Jalisco had 19 districts. This district's head town was at Ciudad Guzmán and it covered 16 municipalities:
*Amacueca, Gómez FarÃÂas, Jilotlán de los Dolores, Santa MarÃÂa del Oro, Pihuamo, San Gabriel, Sayula, Tamazula de Gordiano, Tapalpa, Tecalitlán, Tolimán, Tonila, Tuxpan, Zapotiltic, Zapotitlán de Vadillo and Zapotlán el Grande.
1996âÂÂ2005
In the 1996 scheme, under which Jalisco lost a single-member seat, the district had its head town at Ciudad Guzmán and it comprised 18 municipalities:
*Ciudad Guzmán, San Gabriel, Concepción de Buenos Aires, Gómez FarÃÂas, Jilotlán de los Dolores, Manuel M. Diéguez, La Manzanilla de La Paz, Mazamitla, Pihuamo, Quitupan, Tamazula de Gordiano, Tecalitlán, Tolimán, Tonila, Tuxpan, Valle de Juárez, Zapotiltic and Zapotitlán de Vadillo
1978âÂÂ1996
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, Jalisco's seat allocation rose from 13 to 20. The restored 19th district's head town was at Tamazula de Gordiano and it covered 16 municipalities:
*Concepción de Buenos Aires, Gómez FarÃÂas, Jilotlán de los Dolores, Manuel M. Diéguez, La Manzanilla de La Paz, Mazamitla, Pihuamo, Quitupan, Tamazula de Gordiano, Tecalitlán, Tizapán el Alto, Tonila, Tuxpan, Valle de Juárez, Zapotiltic and Zapotitlán de Vadillo.
Deputies returned to Congress
Presidential elections
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