The 2nd federal electoral district of Chiapas () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 13 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period 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 Karina Margarita del Río Zenteno 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 second district comprises 121 electoral precincts () across 16 municipalities: Bochil, El Bosque, Chalchihuitán, Chenalhó, Huitiupán, Ixtapa, Jitotol, Larrainzar, Mitontic, Pantelhó, Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán, Simojovel, Soyaló, Ixtapa, San Andrés Duraznal and Santiago el Pinar.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Bochil. The district reported a population of 400,254 in the 2020 census. With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 71% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Chiapas 6 9 12 12 13 13 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Under the 2017 districting scheme, the district comprised 18 municipalities in the same part of the state. The head town was at Bochil.
2005–2017 Between 2005 and 2017, the 2nd district was located in the Altos de Chiapas region and covered the municipalities of Aldama, Bochil, Chalchihuitán, Chapultenango, Chenalhó, Francisco León, Huitiupán, Ixhuatán, Jitotol, Larráinzar, Ocotepec, Pantelhó, Pantepec, Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán, Rayón, San Andrés Duraznal, San Juan Cancuc, Santiago el Pinar, Simojovel, Sitalá, Tapalapa and Tapilula.
1996–2005 Between 1996 and 2005, the 2nd district was broadly located in the same region of Chiapas, but with a different composition. It covered municipalities from both the Los Altos region and the extreme north of the state: Amatán, Chapultenango, El Bosque, Francisco León, Huitiupán, Ixhuatán, Ixtacomitán, Ixtapangajoya, Jitotol, Juárez, Ostuacán, Pantepec, Pichucalco, Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacán, Rayón, Reforma, Simojovel, Solosuchiapa, Sunuapa, Tapilula and Tapalapa. It was at that time centred on the city of Pichucalco.
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, Chiapas's seat allocation rose from six to nine. The second district had its head town at San Cristóbal de Las Casas and it covered 13 municipalities. The link provides a list of the constituent municipalities.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chiapas's 2nd district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1976Fernando Correa Suárez1976–197950th Congress1979Pedro Pablo Zepeda Bermúdez1979–198251st Congress1982Areli Madrid Tovilla1982–198552nd Congress1985César Augusto Santiago Ramírez1985–198853rd Congress19881988–199154th Congress1991Cuauhtémoc López Sánchez Coello1991–199455th Congress1994Antonio Pérez Hernández1994–199756th Congress1997Francisco Javier Martínez Zorrilla1997–200057th Congress2000Andrés Carballo Bustamante2000–200358th Congress2003María Elena Orantes López2003–200659th Congress2006Víctor Ortiz del Carpio2006–200960th Congress2009Hernán de Jesús Orantes López2009–201261st Congress2012Pedro Gómez Gómez2012–201562nd Congress2015Hernán de Jesús Orantes López2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress 2021 2021–202465th Congress2024Karina Margarita del Río Zenteno2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Chiapas's 2nd district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 45.56332024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 67.6580
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