The 7th federal electoral district of Jalisco () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 20 such districts in the state of Jalisco.
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.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Claudia García Hernández 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, Jalisco's 7th district is located in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area and comprises 69 electoral precincts () in the northern portion of the municipality of Tonalá.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Tonalá. The district reported a population of 399,701 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Jalisco 13 20 19 19 20 20 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Jalisco regained its 20th congressional seat in the 2017 redistricting process. The 7th district's head town was at Tonalá and it covered 68 precincts in that municipality.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 plan, Jalisco had 19 districts. This district's head town was at Tonalá and it covered the whole of that municipality (81 precincts). The link contains maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 In the 1996 scheme, under which Jalisco lost a single-member seat, the district had its head town at Tonalá and it covered the whole of that municipality, together with Juanacatlán, El Salto and Zapotlanejo.
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, Jalisco's seat allocation rose from 13 to 20. The 7th district's head town was at Yahualica de González Gallo and it covered 11 municipalities in the east of the state: Arandas, Degollado, Jalostotitlán, Jesús María, San Diego de Alejandría, San Julián, San Miguel el Alto, Tepatitlán de Morelos, Valle de Guadalupe, Villa Obregón and Yahualica de González Gallo.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Jalisco's 7th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureGaspar Bolaños 1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...19761976–197950th Congress1979Ignacio González Rubio Vergara1979–198251st Congress1982José Rosas Gómez Luna1982–198552nd Congress1985Alejandro Ontiveros Gómez1985–198853rd Congress1988Juan Enrique Ibarra Pedroza1988–199154th Congress1991José Socorro Velázquez Hernández1991–199455th Congress1994Horacio Alejandro Gutiérrez Bravo1994–199756th Congress1997Felipe Jarero Escobedo1997–200057th Congress2000Jaime Aceves Pérez2000–200358th Congress2003Modesta Vázquez Vázquez2003–200659th Congress2006Carlos René Sánchez Gil2006–200960th Congress2009Jorge Arana Arana2009–201261st Congress2012Sergio Armando Chávez Dávalos2012–201562nd Congress2015Laura Nereida Plascencia Pacheco2015–201863rd Congress2018Juan Carlos Villarreal Salazar 2018–202164th Congress2021Alberto Villa Villegas2021–202465th Congress2024Claudia García Hernández2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Jalisco's 7th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 47.83942024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 54.3059
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