2nd federal electoral district of Chiapas


The 2nd federal electoral district of Chiapas is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 13 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation deputies elected from the third region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Karina Margarita del Río Zenteno of the National Regeneration Movement.

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,
the second district comprises 121 electoral precincts across 16 municipalities:
The head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Bochil. The district reported a population of 400,254 in the 2020 Census. With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 71% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022
2005–2017
1996–2005
'''1978–1996'''

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1976Fernando Correa Suárez1976–197950th Congress
1979Pedro Pablo Zepeda Bermúdez1979–198251st Congress
1982Areli Madrid Tovilla1982–198552nd Congress
1985César Augusto Santiago Ramírez1985–198853rd Congress
19881988–199154th Congress
1991Cuauhtémoc López Sánchez Coello1991–199455th Congress
1994Antonio Pérez Hernández1994–199756th Congress
1997Francisco Javier Martínez Zorrilla1997–200057th Congress
2000Andrés Carballo Bustamante2000–200358th Congress
2003María Elena Orantes López2003–200659th Congress
2006Víctor Ortiz del Carpio2006–200960th Congress
2009Hernán de Jesús Orantes López2009–201261st Congress
2012Pedro Gómez Gómez2012–201562nd Congress
2015Hernán de Jesús Orantes López2015–201863rd Congress
20182018–202164th Congress
2021 2021–202465th Congress
2024Karina Margarita del Río Zenteno2024–202766th Congress