The 17th 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 17th district was re-established in 1978 and was subsequently contested in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is 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 17th district covers 342 electoral precincts () across 18 municipalities in the state's Papaloapan region:
- Acula, Alvarado, Amatitlán, Carlos A. Carrillo, Chacaltianguis, Cosamaloapan, Ignacio de la Llave, Ixmatlahuacan, José Azueta, Lerdo de Tejada, Otatitlán, Saltabarranca, Tierra Blanca, Tlacojalpan, Tlacotalpan, Tlalixcoyan, Tres Valles and Tuxtilla.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Cosamaloapan. The district reported a population of 433,401 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 17th district comprised 14 municipalities, with some overlap with the 2023 scheme:
*Acayucan, Cosamaloapan, Chacaltianguis, Isla, Ixmatlahuacan, Juan RodrÃÂguez Clara, Otatitlán, Playa Vicente, José Azueta, Tlacojalpan, Tuxtilla, Tres Valles, Carlos A. Carrillo and Santiago Sochiapan.
Its head town was the city of Cosamaloapan.
2005âÂÂ2017
Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the 17th district had its head town at Cosamaloapan and it comprised 12 municipalities:
*Alvarado, Cosamaloapan, Cotaxtla, Ignacio de la Llave, Ixmatlahuacan, Jamapa, MedellÃÂn, Otatitlán, Tierra Blanca, Tlacojalpan, Tlalixcoyan and Tres Valles.
1996âÂÂ2005
Under the 1996 districting plan, which assigned Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was moved to Cosamaloapan and the district covered 11 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 newly created 17th district had its head town at Chicontepec in the state's northern Huasteca Baja region and it covered the municipalities of Benito Juárez, Chicontepec, Huayacocotla, Ilamatlán, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Texcatepec, Tlachichilco, Zacualpan and Zontecomatlán.
Deputies returned to Congress
Presidential elections
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