The 9th 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 Guadalupe Araceli Mendoza Arias of the Movimiento del sombrero, the only deputy returned in that election without the support of a registered party.
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 9th district covers 179 precincts () across five municipalities in the centre-west of the state: Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Taretan, Tingambato, Uruapan and Ziracuaretiro.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state's second largest city, Uruapan. The district reported a population of 428,017 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 Uruapan and it comprised solely that city and its surrounding municipality.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting plan, Michoacán lost its 13th district. The 9th district's head town was at Uruapan and it covered six municipalities: The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes. Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Taretan, Tingambato, Uruapan and Ziracuaretiro, as in the 2023 plan, plus Gabriel Zamora.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, the district's head town was at Uruapan and it covered seven municipalities: Charapan, Paracho, and the five from the 2023 plan: Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Taretan, Tingambato, Uruapan and Ziracuaretiro.
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 9th district's head town was the city of Apatzingán de la Constitución and it comprised four municipalities: Apatzingán, La Huacana, Múgica and Parácuaro.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Michoacán's 9th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1979Alfonso Quintero Larios1979–198251st Congress1982Juan Villegas Torres1982–198552nd Congress1985Juan Carlos Velasco Pérez1985–198853rd Congress1988Raúl Reyes Ramírez1988–199154th Congress1991Jaime Calleja Andrade1991–199455th Congress1994Roldán Álvarez Ayala1994–199756th Congress19971997–200057th Congress2000Jesús Garibay García2000–200358th Congress2003Carlos Hernán Silva2003–200659th Congress2006Fausto Mendoza Maldonado2006–200960th Congress2009Uriel López Paredes2009–201261st Congress2012Socorro de la Luz Quintana León2012–201562nd Congress2015Ángel II Alanís Pedraza2015–201863rd Congress2018Ignacio Campos Equihua2018–202164th Congress2021Carlos Alberto Manzo RodríguezEsteban Rafael Constantino Magaña2021–202465th Congress2024Guadalupe Araceli Mendoza Arias2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Michoacán's 9th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 53.88242024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 53.6960
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