8th federal electoral district of Chihuahua


The 8th 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 8th district was created as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. Under the 1975 districting plan, Chihuahua had only six congressional districts; with the 1977 reforms, the number increased to ten. The newly created district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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 8th district covers 377 electoral precincts in the southern part of the municipality of Chihuahua and the eastern part of the city of Chihuahua.
The district's head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Chihuahua. The district reported a population of 468,890 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

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

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1979Mario Legarreta Hernández1979–198251st Congress
19821982–198552nd Congress
19851985–198853rd Congress
19881988–199154th Congress
1991José Luis Canales de la Vega1991–199455th Congress
1994Héctor González Mocken1994–199756th Congress
1997Francisco Martínez Ortega1997–200057th Congress
2000José Mario Rodríguez Álvarez
2000–2001
2001–2003
58th Congress
2003Martha Laguette
Kenny Arroyo González
2003–2006
2004
59th Congress
2006Carlos Reyes López2006–200960th Congress
2009Alejandro Cano Ricaud2009–201261st Congress
2012Pedro Ignacio Domínguez Zepeda2012–201562nd Congress
20152015–201863rd Congress
2018 2018–202164th Congress
20212021–202465th Congress
20242024–202766th Congress

Congressional results

The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1979 to 2021.