The 8th federal electoral district of Veracruz () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 19 such districts in the state of Veracruz.
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 third region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Jorge Alberto Mier Acolt of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory
Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections. The reconfigured 8th district covers 309 electoral precincts () across 22 municipalities to the east of the state capital, Xalapa:
- Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios, Apazapan, Chiconquiaco, Colipa, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Juchique de Ferrer, La Antigua, Landero y Coss, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Paso de Ovejas, Puente Nacional, Tenampa, Tlaltetela, Tonayán, Totutla, Vega de Alatorre, Yecuatla and ÃÂrsulo Galván.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is Las Trancas (a south-eastern suburb of Xalapa). The district reported a population of 439,061 in the 2020 Census.
Previous districting schemes
Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms.
2017âÂÂ2022
Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 8th district comprised 22 municipalities in broadly the same region of the state:
*Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutierrez Barrios, Apazapan, Chiconquiaco, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Juchique de Ferrer, La Antigua, Landero y Coss, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Puente Nacional, Tenampa, Tepetlán, Tlacotepec de MejÃÂa, Tlaltetela, Tonayán, Totutla, ÃÂrsulo Galván, Xalapa (partial, split with the 10th district) and Yecuatla.
Its head town was at Xalapa.
2005âÂÂ2017
Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the district had its head town at Xalapa. It covered 33 precincts in the municipality of Xalapa and 18 other municipalities in their entirety:
*Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios, Apazapan, Banderilla, Colipa, Chiconquiaco, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Jilotepec, Juchique de Ferrer, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Tepetlán, Tonayán, ÃÂrsulo Galván, Vega de Alatorre and Yecuatla.
1996âÂÂ2005
Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Misantla and the district covered 16 municipalities.
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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23. The 8th district had its head town at Huatusco and it covered the municipalities of Camarón de Tejeda, Alpatláhuac, Axocuapan, Ayahualulco, Calcahualco, Carrillo Puerto, Comapan, Cosautlán, Coscomatepec, Cotaxtla, Chocamán, Huatusco, Ixhuacán, Ixhuatlán, Paso del Macho, Sochiapa, Soledad de Doblado, Tenampa, Teocelo, Tepatlaxco, Tlacotepec, Tomatlán, Totutla and Zentla.
Deputies returned to Congress
Presidential elections
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