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8th federal electoral district of Sinaloa

The 8th federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is a defunct federal electoral district of Mexico.

During its existence it elected one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions.

The 8th district was created 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. It was dissolved by the National Electoral Institute (INE) in its 2017 redistricting process because the state's population no longer warranted eight districts. Accordingly, it elected its first deputy in the 1979 legislative election and its last in the 2015 legislative election.

District territory

2005–2017

In its final form, the 8th district covered the southern portion of the city of Mazatlán and parts of the municipality of Mazatlán to the south of the city (386 precincts). The city of Mazatlán served as the head town, where results from individual polling stations were gathered together and tallied.

1996–2005

Under the 1996 plan, the 8th district covered most of the city of Mazatlán, which served as the head town.

1978–1996

As initially created, the 8th district covered a portion of the state capital, Culiacán Rosales, and parts of the rural area of its surrounding municipality. The head town was at Culiacán.

Deputies returned to Congress

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