The 8th federal electoral district of Michoacán () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 11 such districts in the state of Michoacán.
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 fifth region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Ernesto Núñez Aguilar of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).
District territory Michoacán lost its 12th district in the 2023 districting process carried out by the National Electoral Institute (INE). Under the new districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 8th district covers 169 precincts () in the north-west sector of the municipality of Morelia.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Morelia. The district reported a population of 424,851 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Michoacán 9 13 13 12 12 11 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district's head town was at Morelia and it comprised 130 precincts in the north-west of the municipality of Morelia.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting plan, Michoacán lost its 13th district. The 8th district's head town was at Morelia and it covered 145 precincts in the north and west of the municipality. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, the district's head town was at Morelia and it covered the northern portion of the municipality.
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 the reforms, Michoacán's allocation rose from 9 to 13. The 8th district's head town was at Zitácuaro and it comprised nine municipalities in the east of the state: Angangueo, Aporo, Contepec, Epitacio Huerta, Maravatío, Ocampo, Senguio, Tlalpujahua and Zitácuaro.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Michoacán's 8th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislaturePascual Ortiz RubioManuel Martínez Solórzano1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1973Francisco Valdez Zaragoza1973–197649th Congress1976Héctor Terán Torres1976–197950th Congress1979Luis Coq Guichard1979–198251st Congress1982Ignacio Olvera Quintero1982–198552nd Congress1985Abimael López Castillo1985–198853rd Congress1988Hiram Rivera Teja1988–199154th Congress1991José Ascención Orihuela Bárcenas1991–199455th Congress1994Fernando Orihuela Carmona1994–199756th Congress1997Juan Antonio Prats García1997–200057th Congress2000Sergio Acosta Salazar2000–200358th Congress2003Ana Lilia Guillén Quiroz2003–200659th Congress2006Daniel Chávez GarcíaSusana Sarahí Carrasco Cárdenas2006–2009200960th Congress2009Alfonso Martínez AlcázarIridia Salazar Blanco2009–20112011–201261st Congress2012Eligio Cuitláhuac González Farías2012–201562nd Congress2015Fernando Castro Ventura2015–2018201863rd Congress2018Ana Lilia Guillén Quiroz2018–202164th Congress2021Roberto Carlos López García2021–202465th Congress2024Ernesto Núñez Aguilar2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Michoacán's 8th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 54.12872024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 51.7906
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