The 2nd federal electoral district of Chihuahua () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
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 first region.
The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is 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 2nd district covers the south of Ciudad Juárez and the adjacent municipalities of Ahumada, Guadalupe and Práxedis G. Guerrero, for a total of 307 electoral precincts ().
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Juárez. The district reported a population of 400,026 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Chihuahua 6 10 9 9 9 9 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022 the district comprised the municipalities of Ahumada, Ascensión, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Galeana, Guadalupe, Ignacio Zaragoza, Janos, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Práxedis G. Guerrero, together with the south of the municipality of Juárez and the southern portion of Ciudad Juárez.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 2nd district covered the western portion of Ciudad Juárez and of the surrounding municipality of Juárez.The head town was Ciudad Juárez. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. The 2nd district was relocated to the north of the state, with almost exactly the same configuration as in 2005–2017 plan.
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, Chihuahua's seat allocation rose from six to ten. Between 1979 and 1996, the 2nd district was located in the south of the state, centred on the city of Hidalgo del Parral, The link provides a list of the municipalities covered. an area covered by the 9th district under the 2023 scheme.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chihuahua's 2nd district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1964Florentina Villalobos Chaparro1964–196746th Congress1967Pablo Picharra Esparza1967–197047th Congress19701970–197348th Congress1973Luis Parra Orozco1973–197649th Congress1976Oswaldo Rodríguez González1976–197950th Congress1979Jesús Chávez Baeza1979–198251st Congress1982Alfonso Cereceros Peña1982–198552nd Congress1985Jacinto Gómez Pasillas1985–198853rd Congress19881988–199154th Congress1991Edmundo Chacón Rodríguez1991–199455th Congress1994Alfredo Amaya Medina1994–199756th Congress1997Adalberto Balderrama1997–200057th Congress2000David Rodríguez Torres2000–200358th Congress2003Nora Yú Hernández2003–200659th Congress2006Lilia Merodio Reza2006–200960th Congress2009Héctor Murguía LardizábalGeorgina Zapata Lucero2009–20102010–201261st Congress2012Ignacio Duarte Murillo2012–201562nd Congress2015Georgina Zapata Lucero2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress20242024–202766th Congress
Congressional results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1964 to 2021.
Presidential elections + Chihuahua's 2nd district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 52.12472024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 81.4016
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