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5th federal electoral district of Coahuila

The 5th federal electoral district of Coahuila () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of eight such districts in the state of Coahuila.

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 second region.

Suspended in 1930, the 5th district was re-established as part of the 1977 political reforms and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election. The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is José Guillermo Anaya Llamas of the National Action Party (PAN).

District territory

In its 2023 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the National Electoral Institute (INE) assigned Coahuila an additional district. The reconfigured 5th district comprises 205 electoral precincts () in the main portion of the municipality of Torreón.

The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Torreón. The district reported a population of 358,338 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the district covered 276 precincts in the municipality of Torreón, with the remainder of the municipality assigned to the 6th district. The head town was at Torreón.

2005–2017

Under the 2005 districting scheme, the district covered the municipalities of Matamoros, Parras, Viesca and 142 precincts in the southern half of the municipality of Torreón. The head town was the city of Torreón.

1996–2005

Under the 1996 scheme, the district covered the north and east of the city of Torreón, the north, east and south of the surrounding municipality, and the whole of the municipalities of Matamoros and Viesca.

1978–1996

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, Coahuila's seat allocation rose from 4 to 7. The 5th district had its head town at Frontera and it comprised the municipalities of Arteaga, Castaños, Frontera, General Cepeda, Parras, Ramos Arizpe and the rural portion of the municipality of Saltillo.

Deputies returned to Congress

Presidential elections

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