The 10th federal electoral district of Puebla () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 16 such districts in the state of Puebla.
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 fourth region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is María Fabiola Karina Pérez Popoca 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, Puebla's congressional seat allocation rose from 15 to 16. The 10th district is in the Puebla Metropolitan Area and covers 113 electoral precincts () across five of the state's municipalities:
Cuautlancingo, San Andrés Cholula, San Gregorio Atzompa, San Jerónimo Tecuanipan and San Pedro Cholula.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Cholula de Rivadavia. The district reported a population of 422,497 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Puebla 10 14 15 16 15 16 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 From 2017 to 2022, when Puebla was assigned 15 congressional seats, the district's head town was at Cholula de Rivadavia and it covered 7 municipalities: Cuautlancingo, San Andrés Cholula, San Gregorio Atzompa, San Jerónimo Tecuanipan and San Pedro Cholula, as in the 2022 plan, plus Coronango and Juan C. Bonilla .
2005–2017 Under the 2005 plan, the district was one of 16 in Puebla. Its head town was at Cholula and it covered 9 municipalities: The link contains maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes. Coronango, Cuautlancingo, Juan C. Bonilla, San Andrés Cholula, San Gregorio Atzompa, San Jerónimo Tecuanipan and San Pedro Cholula, as in the 2017 plan, plus Ocoyucan and Tlaltenango.
1996–2005 Between 1996 and 2005, Puebla had 15 districts. The 10th covered 11 municipalities, with its head town at Atlixco in the west of the state. Atlixco, Atzitzihuacán, Nealtican, Ocoyucan, San Andrés Cholula, San Gregorio Atzompa, San Jerónimo Tecuanipan, San Pedro Cholula, Santa Isabel Cholula, Tianguismanalco and Tochimilco.
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, Puebla's seat allocation rose from 10 to 14. The 10th district's head town was at Huauchinango in the extreme north of the state and it comprised 17 municipalities in the Sierra Norte region. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Puebla's 10th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1973Guillermo Jiménez Morales1973–197649th Congress1976Adolfo Rodríguez Juárez1976–197950th Congress1979Alfonso Zegbe Sanen1979–198251st Congress1982Mariano Piña Olaya1982–198552nd Congress1985Carlos Adolfo Palafox Vázquez1985–198853rd Congress1988Narciso Alberto Amador Leal1988–199154th Congress1991Alberto Jiménez Arroyo1991–199455th Congress1994Cándido Pérez Verduzco1994–199756th Congress19971997–19991999–200057th Congress2000Neftalí Salvador Escobedo Zoletto2000–200358th Congress2003Rogelio Alejandro Flores Mejía2003–200659th Congress2006Dolores María del Carmen Parra Jiménez2006–200960th Congress2009Juan Pablo Jiménez Concha2009–201261st Congress2012Julio César Lorenzini Rangel2012–201562nd Congress2015Miguel Ángel Huepa Pérez2015–201863rd Congress2018Nayeli Salvatori Bojalil 2018–202164th Congress2021Marco Humberto Aguilar Coronado2021–202465th Congress2024María Fabiola Karina Pérez Popoca2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Puebla's 10th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 60.48502024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 51.5864
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