The 9th 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 9th district was created as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. Under the 1975 districting plan, Chihuahua had only six congressional districts; with the 1977 reforms, the number increased to ten. The newly created district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Noel Chávez Velázquez of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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 9th district comprises 413 electoral precincts () across 27 municipalities in the south of the state: Allende, Balleza, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichí, Coronado, Chínipas, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Guadalupe y Calvo, Guazapares, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, López, Maguarichi, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Satevó, El Tule, Urique, Uruachi and Valle de Zaragoza.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Parral. The district reported a population of 378,424 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 covered the municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Batopilas de Manuel Gómez Morín, Carichí, Coronado, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Guadalupe y Calvo, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, López, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Satevó, El Tule, Urique and Valle de Zaragoza. The head town was at Parral.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the district covered the state's southern municipalities of Balleza, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichi, Chínipas, Cusihuiriachi, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Guachochi, Gran Morelos, Guadalupe y Calvo, Guazapares, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Maguarichi, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Santa Isabel, Satevó, El Tule, Urique, Uruachi and Valle de Zaragoza. The head town was the city of Parral. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. Between 1996 and 2005, the 9th district covered the southern municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Coronado, Guadalupe y Calvo, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Jiménez, López, Matamoros, Rosario, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, El Tule and Valle de Zaragoza. Its head town was the city of Parral.
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. The new 9th district was located in the north-west of the state and its head town was the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes. It comprised the municipalities of Ahumada, Ascensión, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Galeana, Guadalupe, Ignacio Zaragoza, Janos, Madera, Nuevo Casas Grandes and Práxedis G. Guerrero.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chihuahua's 9th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1979Rebeca Anchondo Fernández1979–198251st Congress19821982–198552nd Congress1985Fernando Abarca Fernández1985–198853rd Congress1988Rebeca Anchondo Fernández1988–199154th Congress1991Luis Carlos Rentería Torres1991–199455th Congress1994Sergio Prieto Gamboa1994–199756th Congress1997Jesús José Villalobos Sáenz1997–200057th Congress2000Manuel Payán Nova2000–200358th Congress2003Jesús Aguilar Bueno 2003–200659th Congress2006César Duarte Jáquez2006–200960th Congress2009Luis Carlos Campos Villegas2009–201261st Congress2012Karina Velázquez Ramírez2012–201562nd Congress2015Carlos Hermosillo ArteagaAntonio Enrique Tarín García2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202064th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Noel Chávez Velázquez2024–202766th Congress
Congressional results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1979 to 2021.
Presidential elections + Chihuahua's 9th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 29.10272024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 45.6911
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