5th federal electoral district of Chiapas


The 5th 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 Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán 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,
Chiapas's 5th district covers 138 electoral precincts across five municipalities in the central region of the state:
The district's head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The district reported a population of 447,249 in the 2020 Census; with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 69% of its population, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.

Previous districting schemes

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

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1976Gonzalo Esponda Zebadúa1976–197950th Congress
1979Jaime Coutiño Esquinca1979–198251st Congress
1982Faustino Roos Mazo1982–198552nd Congress
1985Antonio Melgar Aranda1985–198853rd Congress
1988César Ricardo Naumann Escobar1988–199154th Congress
1991José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas1991–199455th Congress
1994Hildiberto Ochoa Samayos1994–199756th Congress
1997Gilberto Velasco Rodríguez1997–200057th Congress
2000Nicolás Lorenzo Álvarez Martínez2000–200358th Congress
2003Florencio Collazo Gómez2003–200659th Congress
2006Jorge Mario Lescieur Talavera2006–200960th Congress
2009Sergio Lobato García2009–201261st Congress
2012Luis Gómez Gómez2012–201562nd Congress
2015María Soledad Sandoval Martínez2015–201863rd Congress
2018Clementina Marta Dekker Gómez2018–202164th Congress
2021Yeimi Aguilar Cifuentes2021–202465th Congress
2024Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán2024–202766th Congress