The 15th 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.
Suspended in 1930, the 15th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. The restored district returned its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Alonso de Jesús Vázquez Jiménez of the National Action Party (PAN).
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 15th district is located in the east of the state, along the border with Guanajuato and Michoacán, and comprises 210 electoral precincts () across 11 of the state's 125 municipalities: Arandas, Atotonilco el Alto, Ayotlán, La Barca, Degollado, Jalostotitlán, Jamay, Jesús María, San Diego de Alejandría, San Julián and San Miguel el Alto.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of La Barca. The district reported a population of 408,273 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 15th district's head town was at La Barca and it covered nine municipalities: Atotonilco el Alto, Ayotlán, La Barca, Degollado, Jamay, Ocotlán, Poncitlán, Tototlán and Zapotlán del Rey.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 plan, Jalisco had 19 districts. This district's head town was at La Barca and it covered nine municipalities: The link contains maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes. Atotonilco el Alto, Ayotlán, La Barca, Degollado, Jamay, Jesús María, Ocotlán, Tototlán and Zapotlán del Rey.
1996–2005 In the 1996 scheme, under which Jalisco lost a single-member seat, the district had its head town at La Barca and it comprised nine municipalities: Atotonilco el Alto, Ayotlán, La Barca, Degollado, Jamay, Ocotlán, Poncitlán, Tototlán and Zapotlán del Rey.
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 restored 15th district's head town was at Guadalajara, the state capital, and it covered a portion of the city's Hidalgo and Libertad sectors.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Jalisco's 15th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ... The 15th district was suspended between 1930 and 19791979Enrique Chavero Ocampo1979–198251st Congress1982Héctor Manuel Perfecto Rodríguez1982–198552nd Congress1985Félix Flores Gómez1985–198853rd Congress1988Gregorio Curiel Díaz1988–199154th Congress1991Raúl Juárez Valencia1991–199455th Congress1994José Enrique Patiño Terán1994–199756th Congress1997Juan José García de Quevedo1997–200057th Congress2000Sergio García Sepúlveda2000–200358th Congress2003Patricia Elena Retamoza Vega2003–200659th Congress2006Gerardo Amezola Fonseca2006–200960th Congress2009Gumercindo Castellanos Flores2009–201261st Congress2012Ossiel Omar Niaves López2012–201562nd Congress2015Ramón Bañales Arambula2015–201863rd Congress2018Absalón García Ochoa2018–202164th Congress2021Ana Laura Sánchez Velázquez2021–202465th Congress2024Alonso de Jesús Vázquez Jiménez2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Jalisco's 15th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 44.08082024Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz Fuerza y Corazón por México44.7412
Notes
References