The 19th 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 19th district was re-established in 1978 and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, re-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 19th district covers 217 electoral precincts () across nine municipalities in the state's southern Papaloapan and Los Tuxtlas regions:
Ángel R. Cabada, Catemaco, Hueyapan de Ocampo, Mecayapan, Pajapan, San Andrés Tuxtla, Santiago Tuxtla, Soteapan and Tatahuicapan.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of San Andrés Tuxtla. The district reported a population of 429,137 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Veracruz 15 23 23 21 20 19 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms.
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 19th district comprised ten municipalities: Catemaco, San Andrés Tuxtla and Santiago Tuxtla (in the Los Tuxtlas region) and Acula, Alvarado, Amatitlán, Angel R. Cabada, Lerdo de Tejada, Saltabarranca and Tlacotalpan (in the Papaloapan region). The head town was the city of San Andrés Tuxtla.
2005–2017 Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the 19th district had its head town at San Andrés Tuxtla and it comprised nine municipalities in the same region as the later schemes: The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans. Acula, Amatitlán, Angel R. Cabada, Catemaco, Lerdo de Tejada, Saltabarranca, San Andrés Tuxtla, Santiago Tuxtla and Tlacotalpan.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, which assigned Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at San Andrés Tuxtla and the district covered 19 municipalities. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered.
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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23. The newly created 19th district had its head town at Martínez de la Torre, to the north of the state capital at Xalapa, and it covered the municipalities of Altotonga, Jalacingo, Martínez de la Torre, Tecolutla and Tlapacoyan.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Veracruz's 19th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureFernando A. Pereira1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro1917Pablo Medina (Incorrectly given as elected for the 10th district.)1917–19181918Juan Manuel Giffard1918–192028th Congress1920Aurelio P. Márquez1920–192229th CongressJosé Manuel Puig Casauranc1922–1924 ... 1979Gonzalo Morgado Huesca1979–198251st Congress1982Roque Spinoso FogliaSeth Cardeña Luna1982–19841984–198552nd Congress1985Cirilo José Rincón Aguilar1985–198853rd Congress1988Luis Antonio Pérez Fraga1988–199154th Congress1991Froylán Ramírez Lara1991–199455th Congress1994Primo Rivera Torres1994–199756th Congress1997Augusto Carrión Álvarez1997–200057th Congress2000Nemesio Domínguez Domínguez2000–200358th Congress2003Jorge Uscanga Escobar2003–200659th Congress2006Nemesio Domínguez Domínguez2006–200960th Congress2009Fernando Santa María Prieto2009–201261st Congress2012Marina Garay Cabada2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress20242024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Veracruz's 19th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 51.00582024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 68.9877
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