The 6th federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa.
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.
Suspended in 1930, the 6th district was re-established as part 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, Sinaloa's seat allocation rose from five to nine. The new districts were first contested in the 1979 legislative election.
The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Olegaria Carrazco Macias 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 sixth district comprises 543 electoral precincts () across five of the state's municipalities: Cosalá, Elota and San Ignacio in their entirety, the southern portion of Culiacán, and the north-west portion of Mazatlán.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the port city of Mazatlán. The district reported a population of 434,330 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Sinaloa 5 9 8 8 7 7 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 As in the 2023 plan, the 6th district covered Cosalá, Elota and San Ignacio in their entirety, together with southern Culiacán and north-western Mazatlán. The city of Mazatlán was the head town.
1996–2017 Under both the 1996 and 2005 plans, the 6th district comprised the entire state south of Culiacán – the municipalities of Cosalá, Elota, San Ignacio, Mazatlán, Concordia, Rosario and Escuinapa. Not included was the urban core of Mazatlán (albeit with slight changes in the dividing lines used in the two schemes), which made up the 8th district. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1978–1996 From 1978 to 1996, the re-established 6th district was located in the north of the state, covering the municipalities of Choix, El Fuerte, Sinaloa and rural portions of Ahome. The head town was at El Fuerte.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Sinaloa's 6th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1979Fortino Gómez Mac Hattón1979–198251st Congress1982Juan Rodolfo López Monroy1982–198552nd Congress1985Salvador Robles Quintero1985–198853rd Congress1988María Eduwiges Vega Padilla1988–199154th Congress1991Manuel de Jesús Valdez Sánchez1991–199455th Congress1994Pablo Moreno Cota1994–199756th Congress19971997–200057th Congress2000José Jaime Barrón Fonseca2000–200358th Congress2003Jorge Abel López SánchezBernardo Vega Carlos 2003–200659th Congress2006Daniel Amador Gaxiola2006–200960th Congress2009Germán Contreras García 2009–201261st Congress2012Francisca Elena Corrales Corrales2012–201562nd Congress2015Germán Escobar Manjarrez2015–201863rd Congress2018Olegaria Carrazco Macias 2018–202164th Congress2021Olegaria Carrazco Macias 2021–202465th Congress2024Olegaria Carrazco Macias 2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Sinaloa's 6th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 59.79062024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 63.6628
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