5th federal electoral district of Chihuahua


The 5th federal electoral district of Chihuahua is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
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 deputies elected from the first region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

District territory

Under the 2022 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,
the district covers 351 electoral precincts across 14 municipalities in the east of the state:
The head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Delicias. The district reported a population of 421,054 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

;2017–2022
;2005–2017
;1996–2005
;1978–1996

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
19761976–197950th Congress
1979Enrique Pérez González1979–198251st Congress
1982Samuel Díaz Olguín1982–198552nd Congress
19851985–198853rd Congress
1988Jorge Esteban Sandoval1988–199154th Congress
19911991–199455th Congress
1994Saúl González Herrera1994–199756th Congress
1997Ignacio Arrieta Aragón1997–200057th Congress
2000César Reyes Roel2000–200358th Congress
2003Fernando Álvarez Monje2003–200659th Congress
2006Felipe González Ruiz2006–200960th Congress
2009Guillermo Márquez Lizalde2009–201261st Congress
2012Abraham Montes Alvarado2012–201562nd Congress
2015Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega2015–201863rd Congress
20182018–202164th Congress
2021
Salvador Alcántar Ortega		2021–2022
2022–2023		65th Congress
2024Juan Antonio Meléndez Ortega2024–202766th Congress

Congressional results

The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1964 to 2021.