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6th federal electoral district of Sinaloa

The 6th federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa.

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 6th district was re-established as part 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, Sinaloa's seat allocation rose from five to nine. The new districts were first contested in the 1979 legislative election.

The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Olegaria Carrazco Macias 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, the sixth district comprises 543 electoral precincts () across five of the state's municipalities:

The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the port city of Mazatlán. The district reported a population of 434,330 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022

As in the 2023 plan, the 6th district covered Cosalá, Elota and San Ignacio in their entirety, together with southern Culiacán and north-western Mazatlán. The city of Mazatlán was the head town.

1996–2017

Under both the 1996 and 2005 plans, the 6th district comprised the entire state south of Culiacán – the municipalities of Cosalá, Elota, San Ignacio, Mazatlán, Concordia, Rosario and Escuinapa. Not included was the urban core of Mazatlán (albeit with slight changes in the dividing lines used in the two schemes), which made up the 8th district.

1978–1996

From 1978 to 1996, the re-established 6th district was located in the north of the state, covering the municipalities of Choix, El Fuerte, Sinaloa and rural portions of Ahome. The head town was at El Fuerte.

Deputies returned to Congress

Presidential elections

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